Two Old Women, [Anniversary Edition]
About this book
"No one should miss this beautiful legend." —Tony HillermanVelma Wallis’s award-winning, bestselling tale about two elderly Native American women who must fend for themselves during a harsh Alaskan winterBased on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational survival tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community, and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness, and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).
Reader Profile
4.4/5 · 214 readers · 72 pages · ≈ 1 h 20 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Two Old Women, [Anniversary Edition]?
About ≈ 1 h 20 m — 72 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Two Old Women, [Anniversary Edition]?
72 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Two Old Women, [Anniversary Edition]?
It sits on the Science Fiction shelves.
Who wrote Two Old Women, [Anniversary Edition]?
Velma Wallis.