Ordinary Wolves: A Novel

ISBN: 1571311211

Author: Kantner, Seth

Condition: Used

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book AwardAn astonishing book: exotic as a dream, acrid and beautiful and honest as life.-Barbara KingsolverAfter his mother flees back to the Lower 48, never to return, Cutuk Hawcly is raised along with his older sister and brother by his father, Abe, in an igloo on Alaskas tundra. Cutuk learns from the local indigenous community how to survive and provide for himself by hunting, fishing, and trading, yet hes still deemed an outsider by the Iupiaq residents in the nearby village of Takunak because hes white. Despite his love for Alaskas wilderness and Dawna, a young woman in the village, he leaves for the city and its modern-world trappings. But when incompatible realities collide, Cutuk is forced to choose between two worlds, both seemingly bent on rejecting him.A stunning, powerfully told, and authentically rendered coming-of-age novel, Ordinary Wolves brilliantly captures a young man finding his place in the world thats shifting in ways he never imagined.