by Cindy Dyson
Published by HarperCollins (2006)
ISBN 978-0060597719
Description:
Sweeping across centuries and into the Aleutian Islands of
Alaska's Bering Sea, And She Was begins with a decision and
a broken taboo when three starving Aleut mothers decide to
take their fate into their own hands. Two hundred and fifty
years later, by the time Brandy, a floundering, trashy, Latin-spewing
cocktail waitress, steps ashore in the 1980s, Unalaska Island
has absorbed their dark secret—a secret that is both
salvation and shame.
In a tense interplay between past and present, And She Was
explores Aleut history, mummies, conquest, survival, and the
seamy side of the 1980s in a fishing boomtown at the edge
of the world, where a lost woman struggles to understand the
gray shades between heroism and evil, and between freedom
and bondage.
About the Author:
The author of eight books for young adults, Cindy Dyson grew
up in Alaska. Her work has appeared in National Geographic,
Backpacker, First for Women, Women's World, and other publications.
She now lives near Glacier Park, Montana.
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