Kikwaakew
by Joseph Boyden
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Twenty-five years after the war of Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden revisits Xavier Bird, who looks to his sons to help defeat an old foe on the trap lines. Kikwaakew first appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of The Walrus magazine.Tags
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A beautifully written short story continuing the tale of Xavier Bird, many long years after we leave him in Three Day Road. Boyden's masterful use of language brings the frozen northern landscape to life. Only rated at 4 stars due to its brevity.
This is a short story showing a small snippet in Xavier Bird's life, written with the same simple and beautiful language of Three Day Road. Very little happens in the story though much is hinted at, almost as if he's preparing us for another extended tale (perhaps his new book later this year), but it's nonetheless memorable — a poignant moment of concern, then happiness and finally fear for the future.
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Joseph Boyden is a novelist and short story writer. His first novel, Three Day Road won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His second novel, Through Black Spruce, won the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Of Irish, Scottish and Anishinaabe heritage, Boyden writes about First Nations heritage and show more culture. He studied creative writing at York University and the University of New Orleans, and taught in the Aboriginal Student Program at Northern College. He is currently a Lecturer with the UBC Creative Writing Program. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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