Books by Joseph Boyden
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review 1: Loved it. Boyden is a great storyteller who write convincingly as one who has lived with real characters like those he's created for these short pieces. There's a sense of harsh reality with no blame or judgement added. I appreciate his perspective on native culture and his incre...
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review 1: I've loved every book by Boyden, and this one has now supplanted Three Day Road as my favorite. This book is a vivid, no-holds-barred tragedy that likely occurred thousands of times over during the course of the violent throes of of early contacts between Europeans and North Amer...
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review 1: I'm a history nerd, what can I say? I really enjoyed it. A detailed narrative and interesting perspective on not only Riel, but Dumont, who was crucial to the events that unfolded with the Metis on the prairies in the 1880s (not to mention the forming of Manitoba). Interesting...
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review 1: This is one of those books I would probably never have picked up were it not this month's selection of my bookclub, despite the fact that I have another of Boyden's books on my shelf, (Three Day Road), which I have not read yet. It is apparently a prequel, taking place in WWI wi...
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review 1: I've been on a Boyden binge recently, reading everything he's written, starting with "Three Day Road" recommended to me by a Miqmak friend in Canada. Having loved that, I then read "Through Black Spruce" (2008)so "Born With A Tooth" took me backwards in terms of his oeuvre. "Born...