whatcassiedid 's review for:

Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

3.0

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This is more of a 3.5 than a 3. I read this for a book club I just joined and found out before I started it that Joseph Boyden, although described in his author's bio at the front of the book as Métis, is a white dude who's lied to Indigenous communities and has insisted for years that he's Indigenous, but when people started to look into this and found out that he was lying, he said he identifies as "a white kid with native roots" which is a big yikes from me. This took me a while to get through because it's so dense and jumps back and forth a lot in a confusing way. It reminded me a lot of a play I saw earlier this year called Redpatch, also about an Indigenous soldier in WWI who's trying to cope with what he's done and seen.