Reader Reviews
Throughout, she describes challenges of daily life, such as learning to eat freshly butchered seal meat ...She also recounts how she had a hard time fitting into village society as well as her husband did...
Kirkus Review
In this richly detailed memoir, Burch takes readers back to the mid-1960s, when, as a newlywed, she joined her anthropologist husband Tiger on an extended visit to the Inuit village of Kivalina, Alaska, to assist him in his participant study of the natives.
BookLife Review
It’s not only a window into a life lived in an environment totally counter to anything the author knew, but a true glimpse into a time when women, intelligent and accomplished women like the author, were expected to go along, smile and pretend everything -even the worst situations - was just fine.
A. E. Stewart, Amazon Review
M. F. Krahulec, Amazon Review
Set against the stark and unforgiving backdrop of Alaska, this true story follows a young, newly married woman thrust into an extreme and unfamiliar world. Burch vividly portrays the realities of isolation, harsh climate, cultural immersion, and unexpected loss. Her journey is as unsettling as it is inspiring, marked by resilience and profound personal growth.
Cathy Jordon, Amazon Review
The journey at the heart of this adventure is the author’s true story of several torturous and gripping months she spent in Alaska—incredibly and monstrously far north in a tiny frozen community—50 years ago with her husband...
P. Glass, Amazon Review