"Medicine Walk" by Richard Wagamese *****

• Audiobook 
• Canadian Ojibwa author
• Originally published in 2014
• Title: walking to find what a person needs to make medicine from plants, metaphor for the father son relationship
• Review:  This is an absolutely exquisite rite of passage story.  Richard Wagamese captures the heartfelt pain and sorrow which comes with love and loss, which comes with the parent/child relationship, and which comes with the passage into adulthood.  A father and son, and an adoptive father struggle with the hard facts of hard scrabble lives, with the hardened heart which has trouble expressing itself fully, and with the limit to lifespan which brings that unique pressure to make things right.  Love takes so many forms, and goes through so many filters, that sometimes it is tough to express, and this wonderful story demonstrates that with the grace of good writing, engaging and believable characters, and its ability to capture some of the truths of being human.