Maybe 3.5 stars, but the first few chapters were really not well done, to the point that I almost stopped reading. the author was providing the story of his grandparents and father but it wasn't a story - it was a cataloguing of events, just dumped into text, and it was almost unreadable.

Luckily it got much better after the author caught up to when he born and it became an autobiography plus a biography of the author's father. The rest of the book was really interesting with discussion of Indigenous way of life and spiritualism. Although I did enjoy it, and it kept me reading, I felt like it could have been told better. I think that Wab Kinew is known a a story teller, but he just didn't seem able to bring it to this book. He skated over some big issues that came across as him just not wanting to address them.

I'm glad I read it, and some parts were excellent, but it didn't live up to my hopes.

An amazing book about the journey of young man reconnecting with his father. There is a beautiful sense of the divine and a deep spirituality about Wab Kinew's writing. I think this should be required reading for all Canadians!

His journalist background pays dividends as he writes the details and environment of each turn on his journey with his father. His artist background breathes life and reverence into the words.

It's a deeply personal book and as it's so connected to the author and the culture, I found it hard to connect myself.

That said, it has deepened my appreciation of both.

An incredible book. A beautiful audiobook read by Wab Kinew.

This book is a must read for Canadians and if I was still teaching at home, it would be on my high school syllabus. A powerful story of this man and his family’s life. We must learn more about our history in order to walk down the road of reconciliation. Read this.

I enjoyed this, the writing style wasn't my favourite but I learned a lot and Wab is lovely.

This book really moved me. Kinew deals with themes of love, forgiveness, and reconciliation both on a personal and societal level. Both are worthwhile narratives and he does a good job of tying them together with minimal cliché and with a surprising measure of subtlety. Kinew has introduced some of the depth of Anishinaabe culture to Canadians through his journalistic work, and this book extends that process through the story of his relationship to his father, and his father's relationship to his own culture and the one that removed him to a residential school as a small child. His father's subsequent path, while not always smooth, was truly remarkable, and Kinew illustrates the results both in societal and personal terms.

This book is a thought-provoking, generous read, and I would recommend it to every Canadian.