The author is in no hurry to answer, with the full background sprinkled a paragraph at a time throughout the story in between descriptions of current efforts to stay alive in a landscape moving from autumn to arctic winter. As opening hooks go, the question of how someone so young got into such a predicament is powerful. The story begins with a 13-year-old girl alone in the Alaskan wilderness, desperately yet systematically trying to establish communication with a wolf pack as her last means of avoiding starvation. Hopefully this isn’t too big a violation of review procedure considering the book is over a quarter century old). (Warning: Some spoilerish comments included, because they refer to the story’s banned status. Publication Info: HarperTrophy May 24, 2005
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