How to Read Richard Wagameses Medicine Walk
Richard Wagamese\u2019s 2014 novel Medicine Walk is the story of Franklin Starlight\u2019s journey of mutual discovery with his dying father. It\u2019s a novel about storytelling, and the personal and cultural identities that stories confer; but also about humans knowing their place on the land \u2014 a knowledge that goes beyond words and theories to experience, to embodiment rather than mental understanding.