Three Day Road Author:Joseph Boyden In this powerful and mesmerizing debut, Joseph Boyden reinvents the tradition of Great War epics like All Quiet on the Western Front and Birdsong. It is 1919 and Niska, an Oji- Cree medicine woman, has left her home in the bush of northern Ontario to retrieve Xavier Bird, her only relation, who has returned from the trenches of E... more »urope. Gravely wounded and addicted to morphine, Xavier recounts how he and his best friend, Elijah Whiskeyjack, prowled the battlefields as snipers of enormous skilland how the circumstances of their deadly craft led them to very different fates. Told with unblinking focus, this is a stunning tale of brutality, survival, and rebirth that marks the arrival of a prodigious new talent.« less
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This book is truely an original story. I read it for my bookclub and didn't look forward to it. However it drew me in. It showed me images I couldn't have imagined.
wow. I reserve "5 stars" for my 20 favorite books, but I had to make an exception - this was outstanding.
WW I, history, culture, memorable characters, I did not put this down. Check the reviews in amazon for more details then if you are at all interested in the story, read it.