One Native Life

by Richard Wagamese

Book Overview

In 2005, award-winning writer Richard Wagamese moved with his partner to a cabin outside Kamloops, B.C. In the crisp mountain air Wagamese felt a peace he'd seldom known before. Abused and abandoned as a kid, he'd grown up feeling there was nowhere he belonged. For years, only alcohol and moves from town to town seemed to ease the pain. In One Native Life, Wagamese looks back down the road he has travelled in reclaiming his identity and talks about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553653122
• ISBN13: 9781553653127
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

This Author is an American Treasure

Wonderful book, the kind you promise yourself you'll read twice, and you do! Should be required reading for any person interested in Native American culture. My whole family has read it, and I'm getting more to send to friends.