Giller Prize-winning author Joseph Boyden's father was the most highly decorated medical officer in the British empire. For this special Remembrance Day episode, he talked about his new novel The Orenda, a bloody and at times brutal fictional account of the wars that gave rise to our nation.

Credits

High School Photos - Brebeuf College School

Three Day Road / CREDIT:Penguin Canada (May 6 2008)
The Orenda / CREDIT: HAMISH HAMILTON CA (Sept. 10 2013)
Through Black Spruce - Penguin Canada (Sept. 15 2009)

Joseph Boyden - CP: 5817801