[REVIEW] Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire, Secret Path

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Secret Path, drawn by Canadian cartoonist Jeff Lemire, is another account of the story of an Anishinaabe child Chanie Wenjack, the same told in Boyden's Wenjack. Secret Path is a graphic novel, Lemire's wordless drawings in pencils with watercolours being interspersed with lyrics from Downie's album of the same name.



Secret Path is a high point in Lemire's career, and a high point for the the Canadian graphic novel, depicting the struggle of a young boy to return home in all of its sadness and all of its glory with beautiful art.



This, too, is a book that must be read.