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Three Day Road - Joseph Boyden
Three Day Road
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4.41 85
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780143017868 (0143017861)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
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Rod Raglin
Rod Raglin rated it
5.0 Three Day Road a memorable story that will haunt, inspire and entertain.
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...
VictoriaNickers
VictoriaNickers rated it
5.0 Three Days Road
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...
Mellkoh
Mellkoh rated it
5.0 Three Day Road
I recently picked up Through Black Spruce to read and told a fellow "bookie" friend about my plan to read it. She asked if I'd read Three Day Road; I had not. That is how I got to this book, as she suggested that Through Black Spruce (which I'm starting tonight) would be better read after Three Da...
Eccentric Musings (jakaEM)
Eccentric Musings (jakaEM) rated it
5.0
This is two of my favourite reads: a "futility-of-war" novel by a Native Canadian writer, and with a unique Native Canadian angle.Xavier and Elijah are Ojibwe-Cree from "the North Country" (which in this case means James Bay area) who sign up for WW I, and - because of their hunting prowess - make f...
Chrissie's Books
Chrissie's Books rated it
3.0
This book is loosely based on the famed Native Canadian WW1 sniper Francis Pegahmagabow. It is about WW1 trench warfare; it is about the role Native Canadians played in this warfare and it is about mystical Cree beliefs. I think this book goes a step deeper. It is about warfare in general and also a...
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