Book: BLESSING'S BEAD by Debby Dahl Edwardson Nez Perce black-and-white illustrations throughout

black-and-white illustrations throughout

Thick pulp board absorbs condensation

at the mouth of history

torch colored

the book is also a philosophical memoir

Book: BLESSING'S BEAD by Debby Dahl Edwardson Nez Perce black-and-white illustrations throughoutALASKA, 1917 Nutaaq adores her older sister, Aaluk, and the happy world of their close knit Iupiaq village. When Aaluk goes across the sea to marry a Siberian Inuit man, she gives Nutaaq a gift from her husbands people: two precious cobalt blue beads. Through the months that follow, as a great shadow falls over the village, the beads remind Nutaaq of the people she loves, and hold out hope that she might connect with her sister again. ALASKA, 1989