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a ceremony is held in honor of a baby's first laugh

Defying stereotypes

When Nipishish is sent to a strange town to live with a white family and attend high school

unpretentious

citizenship

Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel mystery a ceremony is held inSanaaq is the intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the "qallunaat," the white people, in the mid nineteenth century. Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, and her daughter, Qumac, hunt seal, repair their kayak, and gather mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. Theirs is a semi nomadic life on the edge of the ice where marriages are made and unmade, children are