Halfway Man

“My name is Travis Nishigwun. I belong in the north-on the shore of Lake Superior and in the Shield beyond. I belong where the lakes are still the eyes of the earth, and where the shadows of invisible beings move on the snow in moonlight. I belong where there are spirits still.”

This gentle moving novel is about the wilderness north of 60: what it holds to be most real, what happens when the white man moves in, what remains when he leaves. Wayland Drew is a cool, beautiful writer who cares deeply about words and the world they are meant to shape.