Helpful Score: 2
This story started a little slow but I'm so glad I stuck with it. Touching and inspirational, a small book with a large lesson.
Helpful Score: 2
Good insight into Native American culture.
Helpful Score: 2
A classic! I love it!
Helpful Score: 2
Great book! Every teenager should read this. It should become a great American classic.
Helpful Score: 2
I loved this book. I read it years ago and parts of it still stick with me. It was touching and powerful in a quiet way.
Helpful Score: 1
Short, tender novel of life, love, truth & courage set in Northwestern Native America.
Helpful Score: 1
The cover blurb says this is a "modern classic of Native American Life' - and it's true.
Helpful Score: 1
Recommended by my kayaking guide on a trip to Alaska. She did not steer me wrong. I thought it was a very moving and spiritual book.
Helpful Score: 1
I really enjoyed this book. I'm not one for lot's of detail, and there isn't too much given...I like to draw my own conclusion about the scenes laid out and the character's...this gives the freedom to do so but keeps you involved in the present story. I must say, I got a little teary at the end and books rarely have that affect on me :) I can't wait to read the second one!!!
Helpful Score: 1
Great reading. I found it evocative and spiritually uplifting.
It's been more years than I want to admit since I read this book, but it's one that stayed with me. A short, easy read, but one that I consider a classic, and one that is an ideal choice for any tween, male or female.
I enjoyed this book because it was "quiet".
Though there was some drama, tragedy, and celebration, it was all woven into the quiet fabric of the villagers' lives. And when death came it was accepted as part of the cycle we all experience.
Reading this story was like sitting at the end of a small pier, looking out over a quiet lake as the sun begins its day, peeking through the trees and mist; bringing with it, the sounds of a waking natural world.
I would recommend this to anyone looking for a quiet moment in their literary journey :o)
Though there was some drama, tragedy, and celebration, it was all woven into the quiet fabric of the villagers' lives. And when death came it was accepted as part of the cycle we all experience.
Reading this story was like sitting at the end of a small pier, looking out over a quiet lake as the sun begins its day, peeking through the trees and mist; bringing with it, the sounds of a waking natural world.
I would recommend this to anyone looking for a quiet moment in their literary journey :o)
A beautiful story of love and nature and Native American history ...a small but moving book.
A powerful deeply moving story.
