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Unseen companion / Denise Gosliner Orenstein.
In rural Alaska in 1969, the lives of several teenagers come together while trying to find out what happened to a sixteen-year-old boy who is missing. Bethel, Alaska -- a small community in a stark landscape where a powerful and richly textured story spins together, one voice at a time. It is the late 1960s as beaten teenaged Dove Alexie sits in prison. One day, Dove suddenly vanishes, and there is nothing in the prison records to mark his arrival or departure. Out of the tundra, four young people step forward with their stories: Lorraine Hobbs, a precocious loner who brings meals to the prison; Annette Weinland, the local minister's daughter, who volunteers at the prison; Thelma Cooke and Edgar Kwagley, two Yup'ik adolescents orphaned and displaced from their native communities. At the core of each narration is Dove -- and the mystery of his disappearance. Like planets in the solar system, these four young people travel in separate orbits with an unseen companion, Dove. Denise Gosliner Orenstein's masterpiece of intertwining voices captures the complexities of human existence with humor and insight.
Record details
- ISBN: 0060520566
- ISBN: 9780060520564
- ISBN: 0060520574 (lib. bdg.)
- ISBN: 9780060520571 (lib. bdg.)
- Physical Description: 355 pages ; 19 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Katherine Tegen Books, c2003.
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- Formatted Contents Note:
- Part 1: Lorraine Hobbs: Bethel, Alaska; Spring 1969 -- Annette Weinland: Bethel, Alaska; Spring 1969 -- Thelma Cooke: Mt. Edgecumbe High School, Japonski Island, Alaska; Fall 1968 -- Edgar Kwagley: Mt. Edgecumbe High School, Japonski Island, Alaska; Fall 1968 -- Part 2: Lorraine Hobbs: Bethel, Alaska; Spring 1969 -- Annette Weinland: Bethel, Alaska; Summer 1969 -- Part 3: Lorraine Hobbs: Bethel, Alaska; Summer 1969 -- Thelma Cooke: Bethel, Alaska; Summer 1969 -- Edgar Kwagley: Bethel, Alaska; Summer 1969 -- Part 4: Lorraine Hobbs: Bethel, Alaska; Summer 1969 -- Annette Weinland: Bethel, Alaska; Summer 1969 -- Part 5: Lorraine Hobbs: Bethel, Alaska; Fall 1969 -- Epilogue -- Glossary.
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