Richard Wagamese, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (398p) ISBN 978-0-312-35926-3
Wagamese (Keeper N' Me
) threads Native Canadian lore and spirituality into his generous and sentimental Western. Rodeo bull rider Joe Willie Wolfchild, eight seconds away from becoming the #1 ranked "All-Round Cowboy," suffers a career-e
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Richard Wagamese. Raven (www.rapid-reads.com), $9.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-4598-0176-9
Ojibway artist Lucas Smoke, born on the res and now living in a city, has the power to carve a remarkable wood likeness of any face in front of him. After the darkly mysterious Gareth Knight offers him a large commission, Lucas begins having dreams...
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Richard Wagamese. Milkweed (PGW, dist.), $22 (256p) ISBN 978-1-57131-115-3
Canadian author and memoirist Wagamese (Indian Horse) has penned a complex, rugged, and moving father-son novel. Franklin Starlight, a 16-year-old Ojibway Indian, is summoned to the Canadian mill town of Parson’s Gap by his alcoholic father, Eldon...
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Richard Wagamese. Douglas & McIntyre (PGW/Perseus, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $16.95 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-1-77162-080-2
In this collection of brief essays, Wagamese (Medicine Walk), an Ojibwe journalist, author, and poet, reflects on matters including climate change, Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, growing up as a First Nations boy in Ontario in the...
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Richard Wagamese. Douglas & McIntyre (Partners Publishers Group, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $18.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-77162-133-5
Prominent Ojibway author Wagamese (Indian Horse) shares poetic, meditative reflections that have come to him following his morning ritual of entering a new day with prayer and a smudge of sage, sweet grass, tobacco and cedar. His words serve as...
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Richard Wagamese. Milkweed (PGW, dist.), $15 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-1-57131-130-6
At the beginning of this haunting and masterful novel from the late Wagamese (1955–2017), eight-year-old Saul Indian Horse is alone, having been abandoned in a blizzard in rural Ontario in 1961. He finds himself in this situation after his parents...
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Richard Wagamese. Milkweed, $18 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-57131-394-2
Originally published in Canada in 2002, this harrowing memoir from Ojibwe novelist Wagamese (1955–2017) reflects on his turbulent childhood and struggle with alcoholism. In a series of dispatches to his estranged son, Joshua, who was six at the time
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