Blessing's bead / Debby Dahl Edwardson.
by Edwardson, Debby Dahl.
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BookPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009Edition: 1st ed.Description: x, 178 p. : geneal. table ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0374308055.Subject(s): Inuit -- Fiction | Family life -- Alaska -- Fiction | Villages -- Fiction | Tundras -- Fiction | Influenza -- Fiction | Epidemics -- Fiction | Alcoholism -- Fiction | Alaska -- History -- FictionDDC classification: [Fic] Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description Summary: In 1917, 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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In 1917, 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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