We are pleased to be publishing a new work of fiction from Joseph Boyden in 2012. More information about it will be posted here soon.
Joseph Boyden is a Canadian with Irish, Scottish, and Métis roots. His first novel, Three Day Road, has been published in ten languages. It was selected for The Today Show book club, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust fiction prize, the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year, the Amazon.ca/Books in Print First Novel Award, the 2005 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. He divides his time between Northern Ontario and Louisiana, where he teaches writing at the University of New Orleans. His second novel, Through Black Spruce, is the winner of the Scotiabank Giller Award for 2008.
Praise for Through Black Spruce
“Reflects its crisp, poetic title…[Will Bird is ]a thoroughly engaging storyteller…That wry, self–deprecating voice lulls us through a series of adventures alternately sweet and harrowing…An experience beautifully rendered in the raw poetry of Boyden's prose…. Powerful and powerfully told.”—Washington Post
“Boyden's novel is, simply, beautiful: you will lose yourself in the richness of its prose and the ever–deepening puzzles it inveigles you into. Through Black Spruce is fluent, involving fiction, and as good an advertisement as any for unforgiving wilderness living.” —The Times (UK)
“Through Black Spruce is an arresting novel with unexpected twists and turns. It’s also an important contribution to the Native literary voice in this country.” —Tomson Highway, author of Kiss Of The Fur Queen
“Joseph Boyden achieves a beautiful balance between his characters and nature, between the hardships of contemporary life and their strong connection to the past.”
—Nino Ricci, Author of The Origin Of Species and Testament
“[Boyden] writes with so much heart that readers will have no choice but to fall in love with Will and Annie, however flawed and human they might be.”— Georgia Straight (Vancouver, BC)
“As a portrait of contemporary Native life, Through Black Spruce is funny, frank and refreshingly unsentimental…Boyden manages to show how families can be reconstituted. His characters are vulnerable, true, but they're remarkably resilient.” —National Post
Praise for Three Day Road
“Boyden, like Homer in The Iliad, is precise and unflinching in his descriptions of the ways in which soldiers fall in battle. …This novel is a remarkable achievement, and a breathtaking debut.”—The Globe and Mail
“This poignant tale weaves together magic, hubris and plain good storytelling, making it one of the best Canadian literature offerings of the season.”—The Calgary Herald
“Boyden is a remarkable storyteller. Three Day Road is an unforgettable and valuable depiction of the aboriginal Canadian experience in the First World War and at home.”—National Post
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