The author recounts her family's homesteading efforts in the beautiful but unforgiving Alaskan wilderness, a chronicle that is by turns sad, inspiring, and heroic.
On the longest day of the year, an Alaskan girl stays up late with her mother and younger brother, exploring the nature surrounding her and enjoying the midnight sun.
Cutuk Hawcly is growing up in rural Alaska in an Inupiaq village and after his brother and sister leave the traditional ways for life in the city, Cutuk wonders if he should too.
Constantly suffering from the cold, Sam makes his companion on the Arctic trail promise to cremate him when he dies, which the companion does--to his great surprise.
