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.
- ISBN10 1429946784
- ISBN13 9781429946780
- Publish Date 10 November 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
- Format eBook
- Language English