![]() ![]() Will Bird, former bush pilot and widower, is in a coma after a run-in with a local Cree crime lord. It’s a muscular novel worthy of all the second-book hype it’s getting.īoyden paints an intricate portrait of contemporary Aboriginal communities around James Bay through the lives of two warring families, descendants of characters from his first novel, the award-winning Three Day Road. The epic narrative of Through Black Spruce is woven of equal parts violence and tragedy, humour, empathy and forgiveness. ![]() ![]() Joseph Boyden’s second novel is stunning at being a million things at once, but at heart it’s a page-turning campfire story told by one person to another in hushed tones, heartbeat to heartbeat. THROUGH BLACK SPRUCE by Joseph Boyden (Viking Canada), 256 pages, $34 cloth. ![]()
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