num_pages: 384
description: It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relation, is gravely wounded and addicted to morphine. As Niska slowly paddles her canoe on the three-day journey to bring Xavier home, travelling through the stark but stunning landscape of Northern Ontario, their respective stories emerge—stories of Niska’s life among her kin and of Xavier’s horrifying experiences in the killing fields of Ypres and the Somme.
language: English
title: Three Day Road
titlecomplete: Three Day Road (Bird Family Trilogy, #1)
characters: Xavier Bird, Niska, Elijah Whiskeyjack
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, World War I, Canadian Literature, Canada, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 24170
series: Bird Family Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award
category: Fiction Book, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Canadian Authors Association Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, name: McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Amazon.ca First Novel Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: OLA Evergreen Award
publisher: Penguin Canada