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Three Day Road is the first novel from Canadian writer Joseph Boyden. Joseph's maternal grandfather, as well as an uncle on his father's side, served as soldiers during the First World War, and Boyden draws upon a wealth of family narratives. This novel follows the journey of two young Cree men, Xavier and Elijah, who volunteer for that war and become snipers during the conflict. The book was generally critically well received

Since being published in 2005, Three Day Road's inclusion in school curricula and presence in libraries has occasionally been challenged, primarily for its graphic depictions of violence. In 2018, parents in the Lambton Kent District School Board expressed concern that Three Day Road was included in the curriculum of a high school course focused on Indigenous issues, citing the novel's graphic sexual content

Three Day Road is a stunning debut from one of Canada's foremost writers, Joseph Boyden. When Xavier Bird returns from WWI addicted to morphine and wounded, his aunt Niska embarks with him on a three-day journey towards their home in the Northern Ontario bush. As Niska paddles along towards their home, the reader slides seamlessly between Xavier's remembrances of his time at war and Niska's account of Xavier as a boy. Central to the nove

Set in Canada and the battlefields of France and Belgium, Three-Day Road is a mesmerizing novel told through the eyes of Niska—a Canadian Oji-Cree woman living off the land who is the last of a line of healers and diviners—and her nephew Xavier. At the urging of his friend Elijah, a Cree boy raised in reserve schools, Xavier joins the war effort. Shipped off to Europe when they are nineteen, the boys are marginalized from the Canadian soldiers not only by their native appearance but also