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Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese

Medicine Walk

by Richard Wagamese
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  • May 12, 2015, 256 pages
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  • May 2016, 256 pages
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When she'd taken her fill he backed her out of the creek and turned her north to the trailhead. She followed the trail easily, the memory of warm livery, oats and fresh straw, and the sour apples the kid brought her before bedding down beside her for the night urging her forward, and the kid sat in the pitch and sway and roll of her, smoking and singing in a rough, low voice, wondering about his father and the reason he'd been called.

Excerpted from Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese. Copyright © 2015 by Richard Wagamese. Excerpted by permission of Milkweed Editions. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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