A review by emberysing
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

“You were scared ya couldn’t be what ya had to be,” the kid said. “More’n that,” his father said. “Scared I couldn’t be what I never was.”

and now I'm crying?? this was so beautiful. it's about grief and loss and so much fear that leads to regret. and about the sense of losing something you never had. and about how some things can't be forgiven or absolved but maybe they could be understood, if you take the courage to find the words to form their stories.

“He raised a hand to the idea of his father and his mother and a line of people he had never known, then mounted the horse and rode back through the glimmer to the farm where the old man waited, a deck of cards on the scarred and battered table.”
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