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1) The swing
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A swing on a hill overlooking the water is at the center of this lovely meditation on childhood, growing older, friendship and loss"--
Author
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count a while ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native ('with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in'), he's the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa...