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Blessings Bead Audiobook, by Debby Dahl Edwardson Play Audiobook Sample

Blessing's Bead Audiobook

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Read By: Narrator Info Added Soon Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: April 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781705097427

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

40

Longest Chapter Length:

15:58 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

19 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

06:46 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

Now in paperback: the acclaimed middle-grade novel tracing four generations of an Iñupiaq family in Alaska, which the Washington Post praised as "a rare and beautiful book." ALASKA, 1917 Nutaaq adores her older sister, Aaluk, and the happy world of their close-knit Iñupiaq village. When Aaluk goes across the sea to marry a Siberian Inuit man, she gives Nutaaq a gift from her husband's people: two precious cobalt blue beads. Through the months that follow, as a great shadow falls over the village, the beads remind Nutaaq of the people she loves, and hold out hope that she might connect with her sister again. ALASKA, 1989 Blessing's life in the city is unpredictable, with a mother who's sometimes wonderful and sometimes gone. When Mom finally can't take care of her anymore, Blessing is sent to live in a remote Arctic village with a grandmother she barely remembers. In her new home, unfriendly girls whisper in a language she doesn't understand, and Blessing feels like an outsider among her own people. Until she looks in her grandmother's sewing tin--and finds a cobalt blue bead. How might Blessing discover her place in her family and community? And will Nutaaq's hope ever be fulfilled? Tracing four generations of bonds and breakage within one Iñupiaq family, Blessing's Bead is a lovely and surprising novel about trauma, survival, and the healing power of culture and stories.

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About Debby Dahl Edwardson

Debby Dahl Edwardson has lived at the northern most tip of North America in Barrow, Alaska, for more than thirty years. She married into the Ínupiaq community and most of what she writes about is set within this culture. Her novel My Name Is Not Easy is inspired by real stories from a number of boarding schools that once operated throughout Alaska.