Three Day Road

Joseph Boyden's haunting first novel tells the story of two Cree snipers scarred by their experiences on the battlefields of France and Belgium in the First World War. The book was inspired in part by the real-life aboriginal First World War hero Francis Pegahmagabow, and drew both popular and critical acclaim for its unflinching depiction of war's terrible toll.

Three Day Road won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2005 and the Books in Canada/Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2006. It was a Canada Reads contender in 2006, when it was defended by Nelofer Pazira.

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The Next Chapter1:10Bedside Books: Jacquie Neville on "Three Day Road"

Jacquie Neville of the band The Balconies on Joseph Boyden's novel.