Bethel, Alaska
Carey's first book, "Raven's Children: An Alaskan Culture at Twilight", was published in 1992 (). Honored as a 1992 New York Public Library "Book to Remember", this chronicled a summer spent living, hunting, and fishing in Kongiganak and Bethel, Alaska, with a Yup'ik family. An excerpt is included in the anthology "A Reader's Companion to Alaska", edited by Alan Ryan (1997, ).