Shelagh Rogers is the 16th Chancellor of Queen’s University, succeeding the 15th Chancellor, The Honourable Murray Sinclair. A veteran broadcast-journalist, she most recently was the host and co-creator of CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter, the award-winning program devoted to writing in Canada. In 2011, Rogers was inducted as an Honorary Witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; she has since devoted her focus to amplifying Indigenous voices and narratives. That same year, she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. Rogers has been recognized with honorary doctorates from eight universities and served as Chancellor of the University of Victoria for two terms spanning from 2015 to 2021. She is a member of the Métis Nation of Greater Victoria and was the 2022 Symons Medalist. Rogers lives in Winnipeg.
Part of the groundbreaking Kanata Classics list, with a new introduction by Shelagh Rogers, Starlight is the follow-up to Richard Wagamese’s Medicine Walk. Wagamese’s final novel is a rapturous and profoundly moving story of love, compassion, mercy, and the consolations to be found in the natural world.
Frank Starlight has long settled into a quiet life working his remote farm, occasionally venturing into the unbroken country around his property to photograph the wild animals who thrive there. His contemplative existence comes to an abrupt end with the arrival of Emmy, a woman on the run who has committed a desperate act so she and her child can escape a life of abuse. Frank takes in Emmy and her daughter to help them get back on their feet, and, gradually, this accidental family grows into a real one. But Emmy’s violent ex-boyfriend isn’t content to just let her go. He wants revenge and is determined to hunt her down.
An instant national bestseller, Starlight was unfinished at the time of Richard Wagamese’s death, yet every page radiates with his masterful storytelling, intense humanism, and insights that are as hard-earned as they are beautiful. With astonishing scenes set in the rugged backcountry of the B.C. Interior, and characters whose scars cut deep even as their journey toward healing and forgiveness lifts us, Starlight is a magnificent last gift to readers from a writer who believed in the power of stories to save us.
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