Blessing's bead
By: Debby Dahl Edwardson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374308056
Subjects: Inupiat -- Juvenile fiction; Inupiat -- Fiction; Family life -- Alaska -- Fiction; Villages -- Alaska -- Fiction; Tundras -- Fiction; Influenza -- Fiction; Alcoholism -- Fiction; Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959 -- Fiction; Alaska -- History -- 1959- -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: In 1916, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village where they were born.
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