My name is hard like America in Barrow, Alaska, for over thirty years. ocean ice grinding at the shore or wind She married into the Ińupiaq community and “Haunting and deftly composed.…With fi erce love and fi rst-hand pounding the tundra… most of what she writes about is set within this culture. It’s not the culture she was born into, but knowledge, Edwardson brings beautiful, harrowing, courageous lives Luke knows his Ińupiaq name is full of sounds it’s the one she feels she belongs to in every sense along the Arctic Ocean to readers.” white people can’t say. He knows he’ll have to of the word. While My Name is Not Easy is fi ction, —Howard Norman, author of What Is Left the Daughter leave it behind when he and his brothers are sent it was inspired by real stories from a number of to boarding school hundreds of miles from their boarding schools that once operated throughout “Here is a book from the far North that shows a diff erent, and equally Arctic village.
