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Medicine walk / Richard Wagamese.

ISBN: 9781571311153
ISBN: 9781571311160
ISBN: 1571311157
Physical Description: 245 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions, 2015.

Summary:

When Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon, he has mixed emotions. When he finally travels by horseback to town, he finds Eldon on the edge of death, decimated from years of drinking. The two undertake a difficult journey into the mountainous backcountry, in search of a place for Eldon to die and be buried. As they travel, Eldon tells his son the story of his own life-from an impoverished childhood to combat in the Korean War and his shell-shocked return and his fleeting but nonetheless crucial moments of happiness and hope. In telling his story, Eldon offers his son a world the boy has never seen, a history he has never known"-- Provided by publisher.