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Two Old Women [Anniversary Edition] An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

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ISBN-10: 0062244981

ISBN-13: 9780062244987

Edition: N/A

Authors: Velma Wallis

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Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community, and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with…    
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Book details

List price: $15.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.12" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Velma Wallis is one in a family of thirteen children, all born in the vast fur-trapping country of Fort Yukon, Alaska, and raised with traditional Athabascan values. A writer and avid reader, she lives in Fairbanks.