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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Glancy, Diane.     Subjects     Blackjack, Ada, 1898-1983 -- Fiction.     Inupiat women -- Fiction.     Wrangel Island (Russia) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Glancy, Diane.       by title:      A line of driftwood ...       by call number:      FICTION GLA     Search the Web     Glancy, Diane.     Blackjack, Ada, 1898-1983 -- Fiction.     Inupiat women -- Fiction.     Wrangel Island (Russia) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

A line of driftwood : the Ada Blackjack story / Diane Glancy. by Glancy, Diane. Turtle Point Press, 2021. Call #: FICTION GLA Subjects Blackjack, Ada, 1898-1983 -- Fiction.   Inupiat women -- Fiction.   Wrangel Island (Russia) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781933527215 (trade pbk.) Alternate title:  Ada Blackjack story Edition:  1st ed. Description:  123 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  "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. Genre:  Biographical fiction Novels in verse. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection FICTION GLA Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection FICTION GLA Adult books Adult Display 1 Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection FICTION GLA Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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