The Winter Walk

<p><b>Alaska Native Literature Award Winner</b></p><p><b>The tragic yet triumphant story of a young mother's winter journey to the Bering Sea coast with her two young children. This powerful narrative will haunt readers.</b></p><p>Advanced in pregnancy and now newly widowed Qutuuq sets out with her two children leaving their camp and following a frozen river to the coast. Homebound one step at a time through the subzero wilderness.</p><p>This is a chilling true story dating from 1892. It tells of battles against killing cold starvation and exhaustion. It's the story of a haunting decision made in the throes of desperation. And ultimately it's a story of survival and triumph amid unspeakable sorrow.</p><p>More than a century later Qutuuq's story which has descended through her Inupiat Eskimo family as oral history is retold in print by her great-granddaughter.</p>