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Consumption
Consumption
Author: Kevin Patterson
Born in the 1950s, Victoria knows nothing but the nomadic life of the Inuit until, at age ten, she is sent to a sanitarium to recover from tuberculosis. Six years later, she returns to a radically different world, a stranger to her family and culture. She marries a non-Inuit, Robertson; as their children gravitate toward the pop culture of the m...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780307278944
ISBN-10: 0307278948
Publication Date: 7/8/2008
Pages: 400
Edition: Reprint
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4.3 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Anchor
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Can I give s book 6 stars? I loved this book. Yes, the heroine, a Canadian Eskimo, contracts TB as a child, but the book is about how her entire life is affected by being sent away for 6 years to a sanitarium at the age of 10. It is also about how the Eskimos are changed by the white man's culture, how the Eskimo once lived on the land, and there is also some very interesting medical information. Beautiful writing. Fascinating story. And some geography lessons as well if you care to look up the places mentioned on maps.


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