Joseph Boyden
Birth date: October 31, 1966
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Oh dear.I don't deny that this tale of the first encounters between the Jesuit priests and the Huron and Iroquois is well written. Not at all. Nor do I deny that it's well-researched, or that it provides a much-needed alternative point of view to the account of the first contact that we all know, di...
Niska is a traditional medicine woman, a mix of Cree and Ojibway. She's been taught divining and traditional medicine by her mother and father, has seizures and sees visions. She's also the destroyer of windago, an evil presence that sometimes takes possession of humans, a role she has inherited thr...
This is a phenomenal and haunting book. I really loved the story despite most of it being set in the WWI. Maybe because it not the traditional stories being told of WWI. The characters are deep and complex. So powerfully written that it makes you stop and wonder what hell is going on with society. I...
Let me start my review by saying that this book is amazing. But at the same time I have to issue a trigger warning, because this novel contains a fair amount of torture scenes and sexual violence (I will come back to this further on in my review). The Orenda tells the story of a Huron-Wendat warri...
Joseph Boyden’s powerful historical war novel, Orenda, takes place in the mid-1600 in Lower Canada when First Nations tribes and French Jesuit priests collided with each other in their quest for supremacy. Like all wars then and now, battles were won and lost with gratuitous violence and cruelty. Th...
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