[potsie]

Anyone read Joseph Boyden's Wenjack yet? I picked it up for $10 at Chapters since it was on the shelf right next to Secret Path. At about 100 pages in a pocket-sized novella form it's quite short, enough that the $10 price tag feels more like a donation to Camp Onakawana, his First Nations charity of choice for the proceeds (and I have no problem with that). It's about a 25 minute read. Boyden does a great job of fleshing out the story of Chanie and it makes for a good companion to Secret Path if Chanie's story is something that interests you. Also, just a quick plug for Boyden's Three Day Road and Through Black Spruce... two of the best books written by a Canadian author in the past 10 years, or maybe ever.

[kieffer]

Not surprising, him and his wife were at the show Friday night.

[chagrinfalls]

Thanks for the heads up!


He is also the author, along with Amanda Boyden, of this very hilarious & affectionate piece about Gord:
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[thompson girl]

I picked it up on Tuesday and read it in one sitting on Thursday night. I highly recommend it....well, I highly recommend anything Joseph Boyden writes.

I hadn't watched the screen at the Ottawa show, hadn't flipped through the book, and only read a few articles, so I didn't fully know or understand the entire story. After reading Wenjack, I learned more, and had a better understanding of Gord's lyrics, and so the Toronto show meant even more. Not really the right word for a matter such as this, but it is beautiful how the two fit together.

Boyden's Macleans article tells about how several artists were working on something for the 50th anniversary of Chanie's death. I like how Boyden explains how he struggled with the writing, and then switched to a novella. I think it worked.

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/how-c...ph-boyden/