Nutaaq and her older sister, Aaluk, are on a great journey, sailing from a small island off the coast of Alaska to the annual trade fair. There, a handsome young Siberian wearing a string of cobalt blue beads watches Aaluk "the way a wolf watches a caribou, never resting." Soon his actions--and other events more horrible than Nutaaq could ever imagine--threaten to shatter her I~nupiaq world. Seventy years later, Nutaaq's greatgranddaughter, Blessing,...