Medicine walk
By: Richard Wagamese
Edition: Emblem ed.
Publisher: Emblem, McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780771089213; 9780771089206
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Fathers and sons; Fiction; Alcoholics; Redemption; Rites and ceremonies; Ojibwa Indians; Indians of North America; Native peoples
Description: Set in the dramatic landscape of the BC Interior, 16 year-old Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon, a man he barely knows. The rare moments they have shared trouble Frank, but, he answers the call, a son's duty to a father. He finds Eldon dying of liver failure after years of heavy drinking. Eldon asks his son to take him into the mountains, so he may be buried in the traditional Ojibway manner.
Notes: "A novel" --Cover.