A Quality of Light
From the beloved, bestselling author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, Richard Wagamese's novel is a moving story of friendship, loyalty, compassion, and justice.
Joshua Kane, an Ojibway, has lived since infancy with his white adoptive parents. Johnny Gebhardt is white, and from a young age has had a fascination with Indigenous culture, craving the spirituality and strength he knows are a part of a life sorely lacking in his own. Happily, the two boys meet and form a deep bond through their "invention" of baseball, the warrior identities they bestow upon themselves, and their promise to always be loyal and good and kind.
When a nasty racial incident puts Joshua in the hospital and Johnny in a detention centre, Joshua begins…
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July 16, 2019
RICHARD WAGAMESE, an Ojibway from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario, was one of Canada's foremost writers. His acclaimed, bestselling novels included Keeper 'n Me; Indian Horse, which was a Canada Reads finalist, winner of the inaugural Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature, and made into a feature film; and Medicine Walk. He was also the author of acclaimed memoirs, including For Joshua; One Native Life; and One Story, One Song, which won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature; as well as a collection of personal reflections, Embers, which received the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award. He won numerous awards and recognition for his writing, including the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Media…
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Richard Wagamese; illustrated by Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley
A Quality of Light
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