Toronto: Macmillan, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel for adults (preceded by several books for children and a collection of short stories), shortlisted for the 1988 Governor General's Award for Fiction. Set in a small First Nations community on the shores of Hudson Bay, this is a story which "reveals the hardship and tenuousness of northern Native life while offering a message of hope and of the dignity of self-determination.". ISBN: 0-771592817.