If she closed her eyes she could imagine the arched doorway, the Persian rug on the living-room floor, the yellow chairs and the huge window that looked over the bay. She also knew the curls in the wrought-iron gate, and how many steps led up to the big front door she could almost see the black-and-white tile on the floor of the foyer. She knew each flower on the hill where Amy’s house stood, each brick in the wall around the garden, and each tall blowing tree. This attack assault is what prompts Miyax to flee Barrow, which leads to her becoming lost in the Arctic tundra.Īs the months passed, the letters from Amy became the most important thing in Julie’s life and the house in San Francisco grew more real than the house in Barrow. Still, when Daniel finally releases Miyax, he laughs to himself and promises to assault Miyax again tomorrow. Daniel attacks and tries to rape Miyax, though Miyax observes that Daniel’s face shows that he is just as “frightened” as she is. When Miyax is home alone one day, Daniel storms through the door, furious because the other schoolchildren ridiculed him for not being able to “mate” his wife. However, his condition provokes considerable teasing from kids at school. To Miyax’s relief, Daniel mostly ignores her after they are married. When Miyax travels to Barrow to marry Daniel and realizes that he is developmentally disabled, she refuses to believe that Kapugen knew about Daniel’s condition when he made the arrangement.

Miyax’s father Kapugen and Daniel’s father Naka arranged the marriage when the children were very young, and Miyax eventually agrees to the arrangement to escape her strict great-aunt Martha’s tyrannical rule. Like Miyax, he is just a child when they marry. Overall the book is full of fun surprises and adventure! I recommend it as a read aloud in classrooms, or in the home as a family! Although I recommend 10 and up as a general age, my 9 year old still enjoyed the book and wasn't too young for the content.Daniel is Miyax’s husband. but only briefly and in such a way as not to glorify it at all but see it as an issue that needs help and awareness. They talked about real issues, like alcoholism, etc. In the book, Julie deals with the situation in a positive way and left as soon as her safety was at stake which I see as a positive example. I don't find it was a negative experience at all reading it to my young girls and was a gateway to more conversations about some mature matters but in a positive way. I did know about the very small scene people find questionable in advance so I was prepared for it. We are very strict on content of all media types and books in our home and I don't find this book at all negative. I read this book with my daughters aged 9 and 11 and we all enjoyed it! It is well written and such a lovely story of strength and perseverance and such a great way to learn about the arctic and the Inuit.

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