DAUGHTER OF LAPLAND

by Ingrid Pelletier ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 12, 1969

Not so much an entertainment as an exercise in pedantry. This daughter of Lapland is the stepchild of Norway, whose safety and security she greatly prefers to the nomadic life that killed her father six years ago. Ingre is revisiting Lapp relatives while her mother is temporary-teaching nearby-but only for three weeks. After that time comes the annual migration, the very thought of which terrifies her as she remembers that fateful day When the-ice cracked. Even friendly cousins and eventful everydays can't compensate for Ingre's horror on learning that she must accompany the family to the coast, ultimately, due to a change in her mother's plans. En route, however, she earns her own reindeer by saving the pack from wolf attack and conquers her obsession by crossing the dreaded lake that claimed her father. The story is taught--not told--via dialogue as frozen as the terrain: Ingre is a vehicle for the posing of questions-about-a-foreign-land (""I'm learning a lot about your way of life,"" she comments to a mature-for-twelve cousin who says ""Goody!"" later on), and the rest of the unconvincing Cast is simply there to answer them.

Pub Date: Jan. 12, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Putnam

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1969

Categories: FICTION