Kikwaakew
Adventure stories, Canadian non-fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
"Niska is trying to tell him something from far away, something important. She's done this before, working her shake tent, filling his head deep at night with images he can't quite make out through the mist. She warned him about… kikwaakew." 25 years after the war of Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden revisits Xavier Bird, who looks to his sons to help defeat an old foe on the trap lines. Kikwaakew first appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of The Walrus magazine. Three Day Road is winner of the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Roger's Writers Trust Fiction Prize.