My Pick of the Week
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden is an award-winning novel telling the story of an Ojibwa-Cree medicine woman from Northern Ontario who tries to nurse her nephew to health upon his return to Canada from World War I. It becomes obvious to her that her nephew is a changed man, injured and tormented by what he saw and experienced overseas. The events and experiences described in this moving novel are uniquely Canadian. Through these two narrators, we are given an intimate look at what it meant to be a Canadian Indian in 1918, both at home in Northern Ontario, and overseas fighting in the Great War. An extremely moving and well-written first novel. Winner of the 2006 OLA Evergreen Award for excellence in Canadian writing and the reading selection for Waterloo Region 2006 "One book, one community".
Have you read or are you reading this book? I would love to hear your reaction!
...The Book Psychic
2 comments:
This was a moving and well-written novel. I don't usually read war stories, but I actually couldn't put this one down. The Canadian experience in World War I was described from the Canadian soldiers' point of view, but also from the point of view of Native Canadians among the white Canadian soldiers, who were treated differently even by their fellow countrymen. I can't believe it was the author's first novel!
I agree wholeheartedly! War stories are not something I seek when selecting a novel to read. The high level of praise for it in the media and elsewhere prompted me to put a hold on this title.
This book is impossible to put down and the timelines between past and present are elegantly woven. Joseph Boynton richly deserves the accolades and awards he has received for this first novel.
May he write many more!
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