A collection of short reflective pieces by Ojibwe writer Richard Wagamese, moving through land, memory, animals, humility, Indigenous teaching, family, loss and survival.

The book works as a sequence of teachings: brief, direct, grounded in lived experience, often beginning from an encounter with the natural world and opening into questions of responsibility, kinship and attention.

Wagamese writes in an accessible, plainspoken mode, but the simplicity is not thin. These pieces sit somewhere between memoir, spiritual reflection and cultural essay, with particular emphasis on listening: to elders, to place, to animals, to the stories that hold people together when institutions fail them. A good fit for readers interested in Indigenous writing, land-based knowledge, memoir-in-fragments and reflective non-fiction.

Paperback. Later paperback edition, published by Douglas & McIntyre. Minor shelf wear to cover edges and corners; pages clean and binding sound.