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Author Glancy, Diane, author.

Title A line of driftwood : the Ada Blackjack story / Diane Glancy.

Publication Info. Brooklyn, New York : Turtle Point Press, [2021]

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Location Call No. Status
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  811.54 GLA    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  811.54 GLA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-GLANCY    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  811.54 GLANCY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  811 GLANCY    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 123 pages ; 21 cm
Note "Joan Books"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "In September 1921, a young Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack traveled to Wrangel Island, 200 miles off the Arctic Coast of Siberia, as a cook and seamstress, along with four professional explorers. The expedition did not go as planned. When a rescue ship finally broke through the ice two years later, she was the only survivor. Diane Glancy discovered Blackjack's diary in the Dartmouth archives and created a new narrative based on the historical record and her vision of this woman's extraordinary life. She tells the story of a woman facing danger, loss, and unimaginable hardship, yet surviving against the odds where four "experts" could not. Beyond the expedition, the story examines Blackjack's childhood experiences at an Indian residential school, her struggles as a mother and wife, and the faith that enabled her to survive alone on a remote island in the Arctic Sea. Glancy's creative telling of this heroic tale is a high mark in her award-winning hybrid investigations of suffering, identity, and Native American history"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Blackjack, Ada, 1898-1983 -- Poetry.
Blackjack, Ada, 1898-1983 -- Diaries.
Inupiat women -- Poetry.
Wrangel Island (Russia) -- Poetry.
Blackjack, Ada, 1898-1983. (OCoLC)fst00494189
Inupiat women. (OCoLC)fst00977962
Russia (Federation) -- Wrangel Island. (OCoLC)fst01240611
Genre/Form Biographical poetry. (OCoLC)fst01921597
Diaries. (OCoLC)fst01423794
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Biographical poetry.
Diaries.
Added Title Ada Blackjack story
ISBN 9781933527215 (trade paperback)
1933527218 (trade paperback)
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