The Braid

“'I want you to take this to a place and bury it…Listen, if you don't, I'll wander for eternity. Bury it with my people. Remember this. I know you will, because you remember everything. Malaekahana.” With this, a nineteen year-old alcoholic is sent on a voyage to the place of his birth, a place in his past, a place he needs to return to to find himself. Ian MacMillan is a master of story-telling and has the ability to bring the reader eye to eye with shadowed areas of the human psyche.