Publisher's Synopsis
In his darkest hour, the night in which his son, Amorak, is stranded in the middle of an Arctic snowstorm, Jimmy Whitefox, a First Nation elder from the Northwest Territories, is forced to face the fact that his only child is a violent husband and father who has destroyed the lives of those who live with him.While his son fights the elements and his own sinister demons under the most unforgiving of conditions, Jimmy re-creates his own past for his sleeping granddaughter Jiewa, in an attempt to make her understand the origin of her family's pain and the suffering of her people. There, in the quiet darkness that precedes dawn, stories arise, poignant and sweet, sometimes brutal and sometimes prodigious.The vibrant, passionate spirit of the Tli-Cho Nation and their beautiful, magical, and sometimes lethal environment are shared in this compelling story.
