Walking the Ojibwe Path:
A Memoir in Letters to Joshua
Richard Wagamese

Milkweed Editions, 2023
Doubleday Canada, 2002
205 pages

A heart, once shattered, can never heal back to its original shape. Always, there will be lesions and scars that keep it from beating exactly as it once did. Still, with care and gentle nurturing, a heart can re-form stronger, more polished and faceted than before its breaking.

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“I stood before the mirror in my parent’s bedroom, admiring my grownup look, unaware whose shoes I walked in.”

An Uneasy Legacy

She’s paddling a canoe among lily pads when her grandmother’s heirloom ivory comb falls into the muddy water.