The reason you walk: a memoir
Award winning non-fiction, Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Biography, Indigenous peoples biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Summary
When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised him. “The Reason You Walk” spans that 2012 year,… chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes and dreams for the future. As Kinew revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his father's traumatic childhood at residential school. Bestseller. Winner of the 2016 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. 2015.