Collected by Heinrich Rink, this is the translation of the first book printed in Greenland.
Famine moves a Greenlandic family into a new settlement in the 1850’s where the joys and tragedies of pre-Christian times are depicted
A “fatherless” Danish/Greenlandic girl exemplifies a generation of outcast mixed blood children denied their legal dual citizenship rights
The Los Angeles Times praises the wordplay and the richness of Bergland’s poetry, “erupting through deep forest, with all the exuberance and reticence of Emily Dickinson.”
"A child of the ’50’s, Sas Carey was raised to marry and rear children. In overcoming expectations, Sas becomes a healer of body and soul, learning that she need not devote herself to a single person to substantiate herself.