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Winner of the libris award fiction book of the year in the wilds of. Josephs maternal grandfather, as well as an uncle on his fathers side, had served in the first world war, and boyden draws upon this fund of family stories for his first novel, threeday road. Boyden released a statement on the controversy over his heritage on. Joseph boyden has 20 books on goodreads with 118923 ratings. Pairing the genres of war epic and native initiation novel, boyden juxtaposes the ww i battlefield experiences with the threeday downriver journey of.