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Medicine Walk

by Richard Wagamese
Milkweed. Apr. 2015. 256p. ISBN 9781571311153. $22; ebk. ISBN 9781571319319. F
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“Got raised to speak my peace and ask direct,” says Franklin Starlight, and the same must be true of award-winning Canadian authorWagamese (Him Standing), whose latest novel unfolds in still, piercing language. A self-contained 16-year-old of mixed Ojibway and Scots descent, Franklin has gone looking for the father who abandoned him as a babe and is now dying of alcohol abuse. His father wants to be taken someplace special to die—“the only place I felt like I belonged”—and as they ride into the mountains he tells a sometimes harrowing story that brings them both peace.
VERDICT A soothingly moving novel of rapprochement and family roots for all readers.
Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , Mar 01, 2015
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