Title: A Dream
Review: This book brings you into the life of the Chukchi people, offering a believable and complicated portrait through excellently rendered Chukchi characters as well as the perspective of the unlucky Canadian sailor. They are a wise and proud people and their land, which you completely escape into through this novel, was and I hope still is worthy of their all-out efforts to live and prosper there. Do not, by the way, expect an intricately plotted novel (the climax, in particular, is 'not all that'). The plot falls into the rhythms of the Arctic seasons, and, as the Union-Tribune writes above, 'Dream' is "more a state of consciousness experienced than a tale told." I say experience it.
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