A review by sweetramona
The Reason You Walk: A Memoir by Wab Kinew

4.0

This book really moved me. Kinew deals with themes of love, forgiveness, and reconciliation both on a personal and societal level. Both are worthwhile narratives and he does a good job of tying them together with minimal cliché and with a surprising measure of subtlety. Kinew has introduced some of the depth of Anishinaabe culture to Canadians through his journalistic work, and this book extends that process through the story of his relationship to his father, and his father's relationship to his own culture and the one that removed him to a residential school as a small child. His father's subsequent path, while not always smooth, was truly remarkable, and Kinew illustrates the results both in societal and personal terms.

This book is a thought-provoking, generous read, and I would recommend it to every Canadian.