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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 Europe.
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Overwhelming, bleak, prestige and meticulous.
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“FOR MANY DAYS I've hidden in the bush by the town, coming out when I hear the call, watching carefully for him.”
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