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Hunter's Daughter (Northern Dreams) Kindle Edition

by Nowick Gray (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Nilliq, a young Inuit woman in a remote hunting camp, mourns for Aiti, and her chance to escape the oppressive snowhouse of her father.

Mountie Jack McLain, under pressure from HQ, must solve the latest murder up the coast. Wallin, a young shaman, crosses their paths on his own mission to restore a fading traditional life on the land.

This tense mystery, charting a journey of personal and cultural transformation, is set in Arctic Quebec (now Nunavut) in 1964. Hunter’s Daughter creates an authentic atmosphere like that of the stories of Farley Mowat or the film Smilla's Sense of Snow. Damien Morgan calls Hunter’s Daughter “by far the best book I have received through Library Thing's Early Reviewers' program… a fascinating story… great story-telling.

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Nowick Gray - Wild Writings

Timeline and locations for Nowick Gray's My Country Series and Fiction titles

Journey to the heart of the wild, and beyond.

Wild Writings

Life makes beautiful stories, or tragic ones elevated to spiritual understanding by their shape and color, their rhythm and texture, their harmonious composition. They reflect life's own magic, serendipity and synchronicity, patterns and gifts, challenges and surprises, teachings and mysteries.

My Country

A sixty-five-year chronicle from the heart of the American Dream to the edges of Canadian wilderness, and beyond to tropical shores... seeking survival and success, love and freedom, better health and natural beauty, and a sustainable home for the generations to come.

Explore what it's like to find your true desire at the edge of what you know.

To risk the challenge of finding who you really are.

To navigate illusions and false choices; to discover your destiny and the heart of the world.

How to get from here to there, only you can discover.

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By far the best book I have received through Library Thing's Early Reviewers' program... a fascinating story... great story-telling. - Damien Morgan

Beautifully written! I was quite captivated by all the different characters and found the glimpse into traditional Inuit life and culture very fascinating.... This is a novel with a lot of depth. - Cari Hislop, Goodreads

Congratulations on a real winner. A very interesting book set in a fascinating place. And a bold experiment in narrative style. - Nate Briggs, Kindle Book Review

From the Author

The novel draws on my own experience and research in Quebec Inuit villages, where I worked as a teacher in the late 1970s. The students in my classes were among the first generation of their people to grow up in settlement houses. My acquaintance with traditional Inuit life draws on ethnographic and historical accounts, documentary reenactments produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and most important, firsthand journeys on the land with Inuit engaged in traditional activities. My appreciation goes especially to the people of Inukjuak and Kangirsuk for their warm hospitality and generous sharing of their ways of life.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B089NMW28V
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cougar WebWorks; 2nd edition (June 3, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 3, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 989 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 250 pages
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Nowick Gray’s fiction and creative nonfiction crosses genre boundaries and bends categories, with unconventional characters on the margins of society exploring the heart of nature and authentic human being.

A suburban refugee born in Baltimore, Nowick taught in Inuit villages in the Arctic before carving out a homestead in the British Columbia mountains – a life odyssey chronicled in My Generation: A Memoir of the Baby Boom. In more recent years he calls the West Coast home, often wintering in tropical locations. Nowick works as a freelance copy editor and also produces instructional guides for African drumming.

Visit his website at NowickGray.com, where you can join the Wild Writings mailing list and download a free novella.

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Samantha Sabovitch
4.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written, atmospheric, fully developed characters
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2015
Note: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is a historical mystery set in the wilds of northern Quebec in the 1960's, usually not the genre of book that I read. However, I was glad that I did because it was beautiful and well-written.

The story is told from two perspectives, an Innuit young woman who is struggling to understand her identity against her people's history while the incursion of white people threatens to undermine their way of life, and a white RCMP officer who is forever an outsider yet who must solve a series of murders. The story is character- and setting-driven, with language evoking the place and time in a visceral, emotive way. The struggles of both are heart-wrenching, as they figure out who and what they are in these two very different worlds that are colliding.

If the premise appeals to you, pick it up! Pick it up right away!
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Tony Parsons
5.0 out of 5 stars f) feel good about herself
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2016
Late 50’s-1960’s. Aiti (Pingousi’s son) made Nilliq (18, f) feel good about herself.
Wallin from Post-de-la-Baleine (town, Kuujjuarapik, Poce-Balen) stopped & rested his team of dogs.

He had been out in/on the icy tundra.
Nilliq invited him in to her snowhouse.
The 2 of them headed to Wallin’s (aka Charlie Tariq) house in Poste where she met his father Sandlak (hunter).
Sandlak shared their family history with Aiti.
What later happened to Matthesie Konik?
Pootoolik (Pingousi’s father) mentioned Sandlak’s (hunter) name.

Corporal Jack McClain (RCMP) is doing an investigation.
What did Quingak (Dinut’s brother) know?
George (Bay mgr.) & Jack were trying to piece the Townsend Bay hunting camp mystery together.
Jimmy Natsik (Inuk Police, guide) drove the team of dogs for Jack. The 2 seemed to know who the culprit was.
Wallin & Nilliq were out in the middle of nowhere ice fishing.
Col-de-Corbeau (town). Why did Wallin go see Father Tomlin?
Will Corporal McClain (RCMP) solve the crimes?
Spam had to eat that crap when I was a kid, never again I guarantee you!

My only suggestion would be for you to have put at the beginning or the end of who’s who & description of your characters. Your different description of them a lot was kind of hard to follow.
Geography & other
Caribou Crossing
Col-de-Corbeau
Smith Harbour
Niviaqtuq: seal mother
Etc.
People
Nananga: Nilliq’s grandfather
Pingousi: Aiti’s father
Etc.

I did not receive any type of compensation for reading & reviewing this book. While I receive free books from publishers & authors, I am under no obligation to write a positive review, only an honest one. All thoughts & opinions are entirely my own.

A very awesome book cover, great font & writing style. Wow, a very well written historical cultural fiction book. It wasn’t always very easy for me to read/follow from start/finish, but never a dull moment. There were no grammar/typo errors, nor any repetitive or out of line sequence sentences. Lots of exciting scenarios, with several twists/turns & a great set of unique characters to keep track of. This could also make another great mystery who-dun-it murder mystery movie, or better yet a mini TV. There is no doubt in my mind this is a very easy rating of 5 stars.

Thank you for the free Goodreads; Making Connections; Five Rivers Publishing; Author; PDF book
Tony Parsons MSW (Washburn)
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Audrey Driscoll
5.0 out of 5 stars Conflict and change in Canada's North
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2017
Despite the reference to murder and a Mountie, and the word “mystery” above, this book is not a conventional “murder mystery.” Instead, it’s a character-driven, in-depth examination of cultural and personal change in Canada’s arctic. While the murders propel the plot, the substance of this book is a complicated dance of the principal characters, examining relationships and events from different points of view.

Sections narrated in first person by Jack McLain alternate with third-person chapters related from the point of view of Nilliq. This is entirely appropriate, since the author is a white man whose experience of the North was several years of teaching in Quebec Inuit villages. He does not presume to speak with the voice of an Inuit woman, but makes a great effort to represent her culture accurately. All other characters are seen through the eyes of these two; in some cases the same events and people. Rather than repetitious, I found these reiterations helpful in solidifying my understanding of events and relationships.

McLain and Nilliq are people in transition. He knows his term of service is coming to an end, due to imminent bureaucratic changes. Disillusioned with trying to administer justice in a rapidly changing and idiosyncratic cultural situation, but without any solid prospects elsewhere, McLain is a somewhat sad figure, an intelligent and well-meaning individual who too easily sees the dark side of things, but with a fundamental love for the northern way of life. Nilliq teeters on the edge of womanhood, increasingly aware of the exploitation of women by the men around them, and longing for wider horizons. Opposing them and one another are the enigmatic hunter and shaman who calls himself Wallin, although he also has other names, and the menacing figure of Nilliq’s father Sandlak.

The prose is spare and direct, tracing the narrative in a linear way, but permitting the characters to show background complexities in their interactions and conversations, finally taking the reader to a point where the issue of the murders is largely resolved, allowing the main characters to move on to new situations.

Hunter’s Daughter is a tale well told, with special relevance and interest at this time when many Canadians are trying to learn more about their country’s native peoples.

I received a free copy of this book from the author, with no expectation of a review.
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