Alternating between three culturally distinct narrators, Boyden grasps the complex perspectives and factors within the story, as presented by Christophe, a Jesuit missionary, Snow Falls, an Iroquois teen, and Bird, a Huron warrior. The National Post describes the narration as a "powerful and convincing depiction of both faiths”, referring to the Aboriginal and European narrators. Boyden tells the story of conflict between tribes that is ignited following a series of killings as well as the kidnapping of Snow Falls. Sent from New France to convert the natives, Christophe travels with Bird and the Huron tribe. The Orenda is filled with action and scenes of brutality (Nurse). Donna Bailey Nurse describes it as “very violent work, full of the most grotesque descriptions of ritualized torture that I’ve ever…