For Joshua: An Ojibway Father Teaches His Son
by Wagamese, Richard

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For Joshua: An Ojibway Father Teaches His Son: Stalked by a troubled past and deep-rooted fears, bestselling and award-winning Ojibway author Richard Wagamese turns to the Native doctrine of the Medicine Wheel, which teaches balance, introspection, sensitivity to others and, above all, responsibility to one's inner self. In this heartfelt memoir we follow Wagamese as he takes account of his life; we meet the young boy born on the trap-lines of Northern Ontario, the scared kid in foster homes, the runaway teenager, the successful author, the lonely man.

In For Joshua Wagamese keeps alive an Ojibway tradition that prescribes that a father walk his son through the world to teach him his place in it and his kinship with all its inhabitants. For Wagamese, the world's dangers are loneliness and the seductive oblivion of substance abuse that conspire to tear his family apart and separate him from his young son. But Native wisdom teaches him that the world is ultimately redeemed by the wonders it yields under our careful stewardship and the patient workings of love. It is this understanding that he hopes to pass on to his estranged son, Joshua.

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ISBN-10:	0385659539
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780385659536
Author:	Wagamese, Richard
Publisher:	Anchor Canada
Publication Date:	9/2003
Pages:	228 pp
Size/Dimensions:	8 x 5 x .75 inches
Binding:	Paperback