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"This novel brilliantly explores the lives of one bloodline of Alaskan women struggling to make a home for themselves in a small fishing community." --Devin Murphy, national-bestselling author of Tiny Americans In 1939, everything changes for Anne Girl when outsider John Nelson grounds his sailboat on the shores, into Anne Girl's skiff, and into her life during a rare storm in the Alaskan fishing village of Nushagak. When Anne Girl and her mother Marulia find their skiff flattened by John's boat, Anne Girl decides she both hates and wants him. Thus begins a generational saga of strong, stubborn Yup'ik women living in a village that has been divided between the new and the old, the bluff side and the missionary side, the cannery side and the subsistence side. Under Nushagak Bluff is "an alluring and beautiful story of community and culture . . . a tale that reveals the real heart of Alaska" (Don Rearden, author of The Raven's Gift). "Heavener has gifted readers with a story both dreamy and authentic, a story made of many individual stories and celebrating oral storytelling and the value of stories altogether." --Anchorage Daily News "Honors on every page a combination of sea, sky, beach, and tundra, along with the returning salmon, the crying gulls, and the ripe berries they bear." --Denali Sunrise "[A] story of generational inheritances and expectations, fate, and loyalty is filtered through the tough voices of Alaskan women." --Foreword Reviews "An intriguing and important window into life among an Indigenous people and beautifully illustrates the push and pull of assimilation in pre-state Alaska." --Kirkus Reviews

About the Author :
Mia Heavener is of Norwegian, Polish, and Yup'ik heritage. Her experience in rural Alaska is both personal and professional. After graduating from MIT with a degree in civil engineering, Mia returned home to design water and wastewater systems in Alaskan Native villages. During the summers, she commercial fishes with her family in Bristol Bay. She believes that everyone should have a good whiff of the tundra at least once in their life, if not twice. She has an MFA from Colorado State University. Her fiction has appeared in Cortland Review and Willow Springs.

Review :
Mia Heavener's Under Nushagak Bluff shines like the first salmon of summer. An alluring and beautiful story of community and culture, Heavener delivers a tale that reveals the real heart of Alaska. Don Rearden, author of The Raven's Gift, and the hit memoir Never Quit This novel brilliantly explores the lives of one bloodline of Alaskan women struggling to make a home for themselves in a small fishing community. They embrace the duel impulses of the natural world to sustain and ruin them by guiding each other through epic struggles to secure food, warmth, and love. They share the wonder of what the tides deliver, secrets of how to handle the men who work the cannery, and the value of stories that connect you to the past. Full of passionate, unforgettable characters, and told with poetic prose and dreamlike laments, Heavener announces her Alaska-sized talent to the world. --Devin Murphy, author of national bestseller The Boat Runner and Tiny Americans


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  • ISBN-13: 9781597097970
  • Publisher: Red Hen Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Boreal Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1597097977
  • Publisher Date: 12 Nov 2019
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 232


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