REVIEW - TWO OLD WOMEN

This book is for 5 of my reading challenges.
Outdo Yourself Challenge(24/200)
What's In A Name 4(2/6)
Just For Fun(2/12)
The 50 States(Alaska)
Fill In The Gaps Project(58/100)

"Two Old Women" by Velma Wallis
Product Description(Amazon.com)
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.
Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).
# Paperback: 160 pages
# Publisher: Harper Perennial; 10 edition (June 29, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0060723521
# ISBN-13: 978-0060723521

MY THOUGHTS: This is another book that has been on list to read for ages. This is a really good book. The writer takes you deep into the heart of Alaska during the bitter cold of Winter. These two women must survive somehow or die. I really liked the characters, Ch'idzigyakk, meaning Chickadee bird, and Sa' meaning Star. They are very determined to live what has happened to them. You can feel the worry, hunger and tiredness that these women go through. I was rooting for them the whole time I read the book. I wanted them to survive. They had to go back to a time when they were young and remember how to survive. Gathering wood, keeping a fire going, and trapping animals for food. They also had to travel a long way until they found the place where the fish was plentiful. Did they survive? What happened to the people that turned them out? You will have to read the book to find out. If you have a chance to read this book, please do. You won't be disappointed.

MY RATING: 8-12