Blessing's bead
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2009 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
0 words, Guess
Page Count
0 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveisbn_9780374308056
- ISBN-100374308055
- ISBN-139780374308056
- LibraryThing8546663
- Goodreads5775207
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- Library of Congress Control Number2008026726
- Better World Books9780374308056
- Open LibraryOL17048082M
Classifications
- DDC[Fic]
- LCCPZ7.E2657 Ble 2009
- LCCPZ7.E2657Ble 2009
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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FictionHistoryInupiatTundrasFamiliesVillagesInfluenzaAlcoholismFamily lifeAlaska, fictionJuvenile fictionVillages, fictionTundras -- FictionInupiat -- FictionChildren's fictionAlcoholism, fictionInfluenza -- FictionFamily life, fictionAlcoholism -- FictionInupiat -- Juvenile fictionVillages -- Alaska -- FictionInfluenza Epidemic, 1918-1919Family life -- Alaska -- FictionAlaska -- History -- 1959- -- FictionAlaska -- History -- 1867-1959 -- Fiction
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- Fiction
- Juvenile fiction
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