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Middle-grade fiction, The Haunted Igloo (Houghton Mifflin, 1991)
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DRUM DANCE (67,360 words). Young-adult novel set in the late 1930s at a Hudson's Bay fur-trading post, in the area of the famed Northwest Passage expeditions.
Working in the desolate Arctic is not what seventeen-year-old David Jansson planned to do. But when his dad sends for him, he agrees to go. David hasn't seen his father for five years, and the hot-tempered man he finds is not the gentle father he remembers—he has become a domineering, abusive alcoholic. And when David falls for an Inuit girl, dabbles in shamanism, and has visions, his relationship with his father deteriorates. Desperate to leave, David hatches a daredevil plan to escape. But he doesn't account for the ferocity of the Arctic, nor the generosity of spirit of its people. Narrowly escaping death, he discovers that the Arctic seldom gives a man a second chance, and to survive in that frozen world takes the cooperation of all who live there.
Daniel Tomelin, a veteran haunted by the carnage of the First World War, abandons his family in the Great Depression and goes on the road in search of work and relief from his battlefield flashbacks and nightmares . . . Back home, Daniel's wife, LaDaisy, provides for their children with domestic work and by wet-nursing another woman's baby. Then one day, her landlord rapes her for the rent. When Daniel does decide to come home, it may be too late to save his marriage. Face the Winter Naked is filled with compassion, humor, and warmth, despite the economic hardships of the era, and should appeal to readers who enjoy tales of survival in the Great Depression. Stories of men who couldn't cope with the realities of war or financial ruin--those who dearly loved their families, but hadn't the courage to stay and accept responsibility.
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