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Inukshuk

3.4/5 ( ratings)

John Franklin has moved his fifteen-year-old son to the remote northern Canadian town of Houndstitch to make a new life together after his wife, Thomas' mother, left them. Mourning her disappearance, John, a high school English teacher, writes poetry and escapes into an affair, while Thomas withdraws into a fantasy recreation of the infamous Victorian-era arctic expedition led by British explorer Sir John Franklin. With teenage bravado, Thomas gives himself scurvy so that he can sympathize with the characters in the film of his mind--and is almost lost himself.

While told over the course of only a few days, this gripping tale slips through time, powerfully evoking a modern family in distress and the legendary Franklin crew's descent into despair, madness, and cannibalism on the Arctic tundra.

Language: English

Pages: 220

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press

Release: June 19, 2012

ISBN: 1934137421

ISBN 13: 9781934137420

Inukshuk

3.4/5 ( ratings)

John Franklin has moved his fifteen-year-old son to the remote northern Canadian town of Houndstitch to make a new life together after his wife, Thomas' mother, left them. Mourning her disappearance, John, a high school English teacher, writes poetry and escapes into an affair, while Thomas withdraws into a fantasy recreation of the infamous Victorian-era arctic expedition led by British explorer Sir John Franklin. With teenage bravado, Thomas gives himself scurvy so that he can sympathize with the characters in the film of his mind--and is almost lost himself.

While told over the course of only a few days, this gripping tale slips through time, powerfully evoking a modern family in distress and the legendary Franklin crew's descent into despair, madness, and cannibalism on the Arctic tundra.

Language: English

Pages: 220

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press

Release: June 19, 2012

ISBN: 1934137421

ISBN 13: 9781934137420

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