"In Sitka, Alaska, a subarctic port surrounded by snow-dusted mountains, an aged Tlingit Indian woman engages local investigator Cecil Younger to look into her son's murder. The crime has long since been marked solved by the authorities. But what Younger unearths is a primal conspiracy to hide both
The Woman Who Married a Bear
β Scribed by Tiffany Midge
- Book ID
- 111218344
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 78 KB
- Series
- Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780826356536
- ASIN
- B01ATGYLC2
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β¦ Synopsis
Winner of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry, Midge deftly weaves Plains Indian myths into the present day and seeks to define love, the nature of desire, and identity in the twenty-first century. The book includes a series of poems, each titled "Considering Wakatanka," that weave together the themes throughout the book. The Woman Who Married a Bear showcases the wholly individual voice of a talented poet.
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**High drama meets local color as a private investigator works to uncover the motive and identity of a killer in this Shamus Awardβwinning first Cecil Young investigation set in Sitka, Alaska.** Cecil Younger, local Alaskan investigator, is neither good at his job nor at staying sober. When an