Medicine Walk - Richard Wagamese
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Tom Stechschulte
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Adults, Literature
By the celebrated author of Canada Reads Finalist Indian Horse, a stunning new novel that has all the timeless qualities of a classic, as it tells the universal story of a father/son struggle in a fresh, utterly memorable way, set in dramatic landscape of the BC Interior. For male and female listeners equally, for readers of Joseph Boyden, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas King, Russell Banks, and general literary., Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father Eldon. Hes 16 years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with the man. The rare moments theyve shared haunt and trouble Frank, but he answers the call, a sons duty to a father. He finds Eldon decimated after years of drinking, dying of liver failure in a small town flophouse. Eldon asks his son to take him into the mountains, so he may be buried in the traditional Ojibway manner., What ensues is a journey through the rugged and beautiful backcountry, and a journey into the past, as the two men push forward to Eldons end.
