AWARD WINNING AUTHOR Beverley Hopwood has done it again!
Things begin to go wrong when Frobisher Bay stays ice locked and ships cannot get in to replenish the diesel fuel or bring much-needed food into Iqaluit. As Rosa Mam unravels the story of her husband's death, deceit and denial worm their way into a culture and way of life already made difficult by the environment. "Most of our Inuit community are happy people, though we older members struggle a little with understanding the Outsiders's ways. It is sad that we have come to depend so much on goods from the South, which have to be shipped into Iqaluit during the fall or flown in at great expense. But this summer has been like no other. It is the Summer of Ice, and this is my account of the events that caused great hardship in our family..." The Summer of Ice Available at: |
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