![]() ![]() He has a marvelous ability to read people, and the ability to see a situation from a different angle than most others. He provides a refreshing lightness and a sense of humour. We don’t know that Eugene Roth, Starlight’s hired man, will be funny, gentle, understanding. We know that Starlight’s tranquil life of hard work on the farm will bring Emmy some peace. She admits to bad choices, but an abusive father, then life as an orphan in the foster system where she felt worthless and dirty, were beyond her control. Cadotte is pure evil and not the first such man in Emmy’s life. “…began the slow, slumped walk to the porch and the house and the rustic simplicity of a bed, a quilt, and dreams wove from the experience of passing through a day, satisfied at the scuffed and worn feel at its edges.”Įmmy and her daughter, Winnie, are on the run from an unbelievably abusive man. As always, the descriptions of the wind, the sky, the birds and wildlife, the people, are true Wagamese. It begins with Frank Starlight returning home with the urn of “the old man”, to the Nechako Valley in BC, in 1976. I was hooked from the beginning and the tension never let up. ![]() ![]() ![]() I believe this book is his greatest legacy, as it is a wonderful counterpoint to all the sad and tragic stories about the “Sixties Scoop” of native children. Sadly, this will be his last book as he died on Ma– just before he was able to complete the draft of this novel. Then I read everything else he had written. I have been a Wagamese fan since I read “Ragged Company”. ![]()
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