Title: Blessing's bead
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.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Inupiat, Juvenile fiction, Tundras, Alcoholism, Villages, Family life, Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919, Influenza, Families, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Alaska, fiction, Villages, fiction, Alcoholism, fiction
Places: Alaska
Time periods: 1959-, 1867-1959