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Medicine Walk is a 2014 novel by Canadian First Nations author Richard Wagamese. The novel relates the journey of 16-year-old Franklin Starlight and his dying, alcoholic father Eldon Starlight to find a burial site for Eldon at a place deep in the forest he remembers fondly from his youth.
Mar 4, 2014 · Lyrical and poetic, Richard Wagamese’s semi-autobiographical Medicine Walk is about reconciliation with no salvation. The book trails sixteen-year-old Frank Starlight as he escorts his gravely ill, estranged and alcoholic father to the mountains where he wishes to die.
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Richard Wagamese was a Canadian Ojibway author. Wagamese’s childhood was troubled: when he was two years old, he and his three siblings were left at home while their parents went to a nearby town to drink. After running out of food, the children wandered to a railroad station where a policeman found them.
May 12, 2015 · Some Native American tribes in particular, encourage adolescents to go on a "medicine walk" to obtain inner peace and establish a closer relationship with nature. At its simplest, a medicine walk is open time and unplanned travel in a natural place – aimless wandering.
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Oct 6, 2017 · The Medicine Walk, set in British Columbia, tells the story of a young indigenous boy, Franklin Starlight. His father, Eldon, handed him over at a few days old into the care of a non-indigenous man, described only as the “old man.”
Canadian author Richard Wagamese's latest novel, Medicine Walk, is a deeply felt moving portrait of a dying father and his estranged son as they undertake a final journey together.
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Apr 11, 2014 · In his new novel, Richard Wagamese tells the story of a father and son that underscores tragedy could befall anyone.
