Name: Medicine Walk
Brand: Recorded Books, Recorded Books, Inc.
SKU: bn0n

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Winner of the 2015 Banff Mountain Book Festival Award

Growing up in the care of the “old man” he was entrusted to at birth, Franklin Starlight has never really known his biological father, Eldon. The fleeting moments he shared with the alcoholic man have only ended in disasters that haunt the boy. But when father, coming to the end of his alcohol-ruined life, reaches out to sixteen-year-old son their first and last journey together begins. Hesitantly, Franklin obliges his dying father’s wish—to be buried as a warrior—and together they hazard the rugged and dangerous beauty of the backcountry to find an appropriate burial site.

Through the fog of pain, Eldon relates to his son the desolate moments in his life, as well as the times of hope—the family history Franklin has never known. As Father tells the tale, the Son, and the reader, live for the stories, in the hope that they will shed light on the mysteries of a tortured past.

Editorial Reviews

“A novel about the role of stories in our lives, those we tell ourselves about ourselves and those we agree to live by.” —Globe and Mail (Toronto)

“Medicine Walk…feels less written than painstakingly etched into something more permanent than paper…For Frank, a ‘hunt was a process.’ And so is the way Wagamese pursues his story: biding his time, never rushing, calibrating each word so carefully that he too never seems to waste a shot…Though death saturates these pages, not a word here is lugubrious…There’s nothing plain about this plain-spoken book.” —New York Times Book Review

“Wagamese has penned a complex, rugged, and moving father-son novel. His muscular prose and spare tone complement this gem of a narrative.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Wagamese is a keen observer, sketching places…or people…elegantly, economically, all while gracefully employing literary insight to deftly dissect blood ties lingering in fractured families. A powerful novel of hard men in hard country reminiscent of Jim Harrison’s Legends of the Fall.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Tom Stechschulte’s skill in voicing the cadence of Native American characters makes him the perfect narrator for this breathtaking novel…Stechschulte sensitively portrays the boy’s vulnerability and deep cynicism as the pair embark on a horseback trip into the precipitous backcountry…The exquisite, almost lyrical, prose is beautifully rendered by Stechschulte.” —AudioFile

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Author Bio: Richard Wagamese

Richard Wagamese (1955–2017) was one of Canada’s foremost writers. An Ojibway from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario, he is recognized as one of Canada’s foremost authors and storytellers. He wrote seventeen books, including the national bestsellers Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations and Indian Horse, the People’s Choice winner in the 2013 Canada Reads competition. He was also the author of acclaimed memoirs, including For Joshua, the bestselling One Native Life, and One Story, One Song, which won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from both Thompson Rivers University and Lakehead University. As well as being an author, he was a newspaper columnist and reporter, radio and television broadcaster and producer, and documentary producer.

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Format:	Retail CD
Available Formats :	Retail CD
Category:	Fiction/Literary
Publisher:	Recorded Books, Inc.
CDs:	7
Runtime:	8.02
ISBN:	9781664441163
Audience:	Adult
Language:	English

Medicine Walk

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