Michael Winkler

I am perplexed by the space Stegemann gives to lashing political progressives, but I never doubt his sincerity. It would have been easier for him to bark the orthodoxy as it is understood by those people most likely to be his readers. And perhaps his views are closer to some progressive First Nations thinking than might be comfortable for those of us fretting away in the urban centres.

It is Winkler’s attempt to document Grim’s unfathomable life – to indirectly, absorb and transform some of his pain – that allows us, humbly, to see the beauty and validity in all lives, and to better see our own.