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Consumption.(Brief article)(Book review)
In the early sixties, the "anachronistic malady" of tuberculosis haunts a small Inuit community in the Canadian Arctic. A child is taken from her family for treatment in Montreal and returns six years later, forever marked as unique by her hunger for the outside world and the scars of a brutal surgery. Meanwhile, an influx of white men--and modernity--has estranged the natives from the land and the traditions that enabled them ...
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