Through Black Spruce Audiobook By Joseph Boyden cover art

Through Black Spruce

 Preview
Get this deal Try for $0.00
Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm PT.
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just $0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible Premium Plus.
1 audiobook per month of your choice from our unparalleled catalog.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Through Black Spruce

By: Joseph Boyden
Narrated by: James Jenner
Get this deal Try for $0.00

$14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime. Offers ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm PT.

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $22.35

Buy for $22.35

Get 3 months for $0.99 a month
Joseph Boyden's first novel, Three Day Road, was a Today Show Book Club selection. Through Black Spruce is the exceptional follow-up to his acclaimed debut. Cree bush pilot Will Bird lies comatose in a hospital, while his wayward niece Annie arrives to sit in silent vigil by his side. Slowly their stories reveal two people previously separated by great distances, beaten and broken, and searching for some sense of where they belong in the world.©2008 Joseph Boyden (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC African American Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

Critic reviews

"[A]n intelligent, multilayered accomplishment, and well worth reading." ( Publishers Weekly)
Compelling Story • Fascinating Characters • Intricate Tale • Authentic Dialogue • Strong Performances

Highly rated for:

All stars
Most relevant
Great story and generally strong performances but the mispronunciation of the Canadian place names was really grating. Spa-DEE-na? Bath-HURST? Tor-RAWN-to? MAWN-tree-all? And then Mount Royal with a French accent?? It's like listening to an American tourist. Come on guys! Get it together!! At least talk to a local next time.

Learn your place names!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
loved it, great dialogue and writing, makes me want to spend more time in the wilderness.

Great story, great narration!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The author acknowledges native life, and its shortcomings, but it doesn't own his characters, or the book.
Very realistic wilderness scenarios, not tidy, nor idyllic.
Exceptionally well read, wonderful parallels between predators in the many worlds inhabited by the characters.
Would love to listen to Boyden's first book " Three Day Road"

A pleasure to listen to

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
l loved this book. I was sorry It had ti end. the characters easily became a part of my day. I looked forward to the adventures and their personal growth.

Wonderful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The books were better each read. It is one of those few times I am sad too have finished... and days later still think about them....
(Three Day Road, the Orenda & Through Black Spruce)

pure excellence...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews