Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival - Softcover

Wallis, Velma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062244981 ISBN 13: 9780062244987

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2013

Synopsis

Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community, and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness, and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).

About this title

Review:

"Full of adventure, suspense, and obstacles overcome--an octogenarian version of 'Thelma and Louise' triumphant."--Kirkus Reviews

"Velma Wallis has given us a gift to cherish."--Alaska

"Two Old Women speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness, and wisdom."--Ursula K. Le Guin

"A beautiful and moving book. Velma Wallis's writing is as lean and muscular, as full of unexpected bounties, as the far north, and readers are sure to be delighted with Two Old Women."--Washington Post

"No one should miss this beautiful legend."--Tony Hillerman

About the Author:

Velma Wallis is one in a family of thirteen children, all born in the vast fur-trapping country of Fort Yukon, Alaska, and raised with traditional Athabascan values. A writer and avid reader, she lives in Fairbanks.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062244981
• ISBN 13: 9780062244987
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 127