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

Times: 1959-,  1867-1959