O'Brien, Murrough. "Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden." Independent, Independent.co.uk, 13 Aug. 2005, www.independent.co.uk/artsentertainment/books/reviews/three-day-road-by-joseph-boyden-305861.html. Accessed 16 July 2017.
- Murrough claims that Niska realizes that the mantle has been passed on to her when her father is arrested by the Canadian authorities for the murder of a woman
- Murrough says that Xavier can not handle Elijah’s love for bloodlust
- Murrough claims that even though Xavier is a gentle and sensitive individual, war Schaefer 8 has made him bloodthirsty and desperate
- Murrough states that this book combines both racial and cultural stories
Pragmatic – “From a teacher of creative writing, one would expect a work of more textbook slickness.”
- “From the first page, the reader feels the draw of a giggle at the faux-naïf style, the cumbersome cadences.”
Objective – “Like her father before her, she can read the bones of a moose as augury.”
- “The Windigo, symbol of despair, prowls through these pages.”
Expressive – “Boyden’s prose may lurch from self-conscious simplicity to jarring colloquialism.”
- “He guides us through immensely complex stories with subtlety and grace.”
Mimetic – “His icy bite is as terrible in the trenches as in the woody wastes of Canada.”
- “Perhaps the most startling success of this book is the way it combines a tale of racial and cultural displacement with a mystic saga.”
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