Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew recalls a year reconnecting with his father in “The Reason You Walk.”
The Campus Bookstore has named Wab Kinew’s memoir The Reason You Walk its book of the week, offered at a discount through February 7. Normally $32, it will sell this week for $25.
When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Kinew—a Winnipeg broadcaster and musician—decided to spend a year reconnecting. As he revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his father’s traumatic childhood at residential school.
Invoking hope, healing and forgiveness, The Reason You Walk is a poignant story of a father and son as they embark on a journey to repair their family bond. By turns lighthearted and solemn, the author gives readers an inspiring vision for family and cross-cultural reconciliation, and for a wider conversation about the future of aboriginal peoples.