book cover: “The Reason You Walk.”Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew recalls a year reconnecting with his father in “The Reason You Walk.”

Moving memoir selected as book of the week

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.