Three Day Road

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Three Day Road is a novel by Canadian writer Joseph Boyden.

Set in 1919, following the end of World War I, the novel takes place in the wilderness of Northern Ontario and on the battlefields of France and Belgium. Niska, an Oji-Cree medicine woman, arrives at the train station to take her gravely wounded nephew Xavier back home via a three-day canoe trip.

As the trip progresses, Niska tells Xavier about her life to keep Xavier alive, while Xavier relives his experiences as one of the leading snipers in wartorn Europe in his morphine-affected mind.

The novel was inspired in part by real-life aboriginal World War I heroes Francis Pegahmagabow and John Shiwak.