![]() ![]() ![]() Starlight was unfinished at the time of Richard Wagamese's death, yet every page radiates with his masterful storytelling, intense humanism, and insights that are as hard-earned as they are beautiful. He wants revenge and is hunting her down. But Emmy's abusive ex isn't content to just let her go. Over time, he introduces them to the land and patiently teaches them the skills that have allowed him not only to survive but to find communion with the world, and, gradually, this accidental family changes Starlight and Emmy in ways they never imagined. ![]() After Emmy has a run-in with the law, Starlight agrees to take in her and her daughter to help them get back on their feet. But his contemplative existence is turned upside down by the sudden arrival of Emmy, a woman who has committed a desperate act so she and her child can escape a harrowing life of violence. Franklin Starlight had long settled into a quiet and predictable life working his remote farm. ![]() A radiant novel about the redemptive power of love, mercy, and compassion-and the land's ability to heal us. The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge and then redemption on a farm run by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own. ![]()
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