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: “Wenjack” by Joseph Boyden, historical fiction I guess you could call it? Delivers the story of Chanie Wenjack, the 11 year aboriginal boy who died escaping his residential school and prompting the first public inquiry into the program.
An important and tragic peice of history but lacked pretty much everything I would need to feel conected to a story, it was delivered through a confusing 3rd person/1st person mix of different animals watching his journey? I think it was supposed to be artsy saying he was alone but i just found it odd hearing a story delivered by a deer tick. If you want to read boyden you should probably just read three day road which is amazing and ignore this one. Full of cree words without a meaning of what they are? Maybe trying to make us feel the cultural supression they experienced? Points for being artsy but everything else was a let down.
Save yourself the trouble and just read authors notes its the facts of the actual story and far more compelling that whatever that story was supposed to be
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An important and tragic peice of history but lacked pretty much everything I would need to feel conected to a story, it was delivered through a confusing 3rd person/1st person mix of different animals watching his journey? I think it was supposed to be artsy saying he was alone but i just found it odd hearing a story delivered by a deer tick. If you want to read boyden you should probably just read three day road which is amazing and ignore this one. Full of cree words without a meaning of what they are? Maybe trying to make us feel the cultural supression they experienced? Points for being artsy but everything else was a let down.
Save yourself the trouble and just read authors notes its the facts of the actual story and far more compelling that whatever that story was supposed to be
⭐️