Starlight by richard wagamese review5/30/2023 He walked the old mare out of the pen and led her to the gate that opened out into the field. In spare but descriptive prose reminiscent of the works of Cormac McCarthy and Ernest Hemingway he conveys scene after scene in vivid detail. First and foremost is Wagamese's writing style. Over the course of the expedition the two men discover truths about themselves as Eldon confronts the pain and errors of his past and Franklin comes to understand, if not forgive, his father. Although angry and resentful, Franklin agrees and the odyssey begins. Claiming he is dying of liver failure, Eldon wants his son to help him reach a ridge in the wilderness 40 miles away and to bury him there in "the warrior way" – sitting upright in the grave and facing east. Franklin is understandably reluctant to answer his father's summons to visit him in a nearby town, and is also unenthusiastic about honoring what Eldon claims is his last wish. In this stellar novel, a father and son's journey helps them heal their fractured relationship by reconciling their past.Ĭanadian author Richard Wagamese's latest novel, Medicine Walk, is a deeply felt moving portrait of a dying father and his estranged son as they undertake a final journey together.įranklin Starlight is a young Ojibwe man whose experiences with his mostly absent father, Eldon, are a kaleidoscope of parental failure: missed birthdays, broken promises, picnics where Eldon disappears only to return too drunk to drive home.
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