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A distant enemy

A distant enemy

by Deb Vanasse

1997Ethnic identityFictionYupik EskimosEskimosEskimos in fiction
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First lines

JOSEPH AND HIS GRANDFATHER sat without speaking in the sixteen-foot wooden skiff on Long River, watching a string of white plastic corks as they bobbed in the ripples of brown water.

About this book

Fourteen-year-old Joseph, part Yupik Eskimo and part white, struggles to maintain his people's ancient culture as the western world encroaches on his Alaska village.

Themes & subjects

Ethnic identityFictionYupik EskimosEskimosEskimos in fictionAlaska in fiction
First published 1997

Setting

Alaska

Author

Deb Vanasse

First published

1997

Pages

179

Read time

≈ 4h

Editions

5

Language

English

Publisher

Vanessa Lind Books

ISBN

9781940320076

Where to buy

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