{"product_id":"dream-wheels","title":"Dream Wheels","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of Keeper’n Me and For Joshua, Dream Wheels is a vital and unsparing novel from one of the most fascinating voices in Canadian writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe Willie Wolfchild is on the verge of becoming a World Champion rodeo cowboy when a legendary bull cripples him. At the same time, in the same city, Claire Hartley is brutally assaulted and her 14-year-old son, Aiden, is critically injured during a burglary. The young Ojibway-Sioux man, the black single mother and her mulatto son find their lives irrevocably changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe Willie, a rodeo cowboy since he was a child, smolders in angry silence over a deformed left arm and a limp that make it impossible for him to compete. Claire, a victim of numerous bad relationships, withdraws from men and swears a bitter celibacy. Aiden gains notoriety among his criminal peers and slips into a self-destructive spiral of drugs and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEager to find a place for her son to channel his explosive energies, Claire brings Aiden to a rodeo camp run by the Wolfchild family, where he is drawn to bull riding and proves to be a stunning natural. But Joe Willie refuses to have anything to do with the camp, remaining an aloof, mysterious presence to Claire and the boy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirch Wolfchild, Joe Willie’s father, sees the potential for Aiden to become a champion and for his son to heal himself, if they can move beyond anger to forge a partnership. Claire’s and Joe Willie’s wounds bring them together in a surprising romance, and beneath it all is Birch Wolfchild’s tale of the changing of the life of the Indian cowboy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDream Wheels is a story about change. Moving from the Wild West Shows of the late 1880s to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas to a lush valley in the mountains, it tells the story of a people’s journey, a family’s vision,\u003cbr\u003ea man’s reawakening, a woman’s recovery, and a boy’s emergence to manhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Wagamese","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46009461047493,"sku":"9780385662000","price":9.75,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780385662000.jpg?v=1774824447","url":"https:\/\/www.bloominsallysusedbooks.com\/products\/dream-wheels","provider":"Bloomin’ Sally’s Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}