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Book SynopsisCrafted from memories, legends, and art, this powerful memoir tells the uplifting story of an Indigenous man’s struggle to reconnect with his culture and walk in the footsteps of his father and the generations of Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw artists that came before him.
Trade ReviewThe Way Home is filled with portrait photography that conveys stories that cannot be told by words alone. In this image-filled memoir we are also invited into Neel’s creative journey through his descriptions and photos of his own carved masks and his precious metal jewelry. -- Latash-Maurice Nahanee * BCBookLook *
"A spellbinding memoir with universal reach … beautifully told and illustrated … Neel's memoir is written with the same calm mastery he brings to all his art. This is a wise, eloquent, and deeply moving book." — 2020 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction jury (Helen Knott, Sandra Martin, and Ronald Wright)
-- Helen Knott, Sandra Martin, and Ronald Wright * Hillary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction jury *
Table of ContentsForeword by Carolyn Butler-Palmer
Preface
1 Beginnings: Far from Home
2 Photography: Transformation
3 Masks: Homecoming
Interlude: Paintings
4 Lessons: Chiefs and Elders
Interlude: Prints
5 Resurgence: The Great Canoes
Interlude: Jewellery
6 Home Again: Coming Full Circle
