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Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award

"An astonishing book: exotic as a dream, acrid and beautiful and honest as life."--Barbara Kingsolver

After his mother flees back to the Lower 48, never to return, Cutuk Hawcly is raised along... Read Full Overview

In the tradition of Jack London, Seth Kantner presents an Alaska far removed from majestic cliches of exotic travelogues and picture postcards. Kantner s vivid and poetic prose lets readers experience Cutuk Hawcly s life on the Alaskan plains through the character s own words... Read Full Overview

I upiaq Eskimo and white culture collide in this national bestselling novel of life in the contemporary Alaskan wilderness Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled... Read Full Overview

I upiaq Eskimo and white culture collide in this national bestselling novel of life in the contemporary Alaskan wilderness Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled... Read Full Overview

Eskimo and white culture collide in this national bestselling novel of life in the contemporary Alaskan wilderness Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled dogs, hunkering... Read Full Overview