Soonchild
by Russell Hoban
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Somewhere in the Arctic Circle, Sixteen-Face John, a shaman, learns that his first child, a soonchild, cannot hear the World Songs from her mother's womb. The World Songs are what inspire all newborns to come out into the world, and John must find them for her. But how? The answer takes him through many lifetimes and many shape-shifts, as well as encounters with beasts, demons and a mysterious benevolent owl spirit, Ukpika, who is linked to John's past ... Legendary storyteller, Russell Hoban whisks his readers across frozen landscapes, to the edges of cliffs, into tiny rocky crannies, and down into the belly of a great swallowing demon - and has them laughing and weeping by turns along the way.
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Eskimos, JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / Other, JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Native American, Shamans, Fiction, Inuit, Pregnancy, Supernatural, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / New Baby, Father and child, Paranormal fiction, Juvenile fiction, Young adult fiction, Children's fiction, Supernatural, fiction, Family, fiction, Infants, fictionPlaces
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In the cold north, when Sixteen-Face John, a shaman, learns that his first child, a soonchild, cannot hear the World Songs that inspire all newborns from their mother's wombs, he sets out on a quest that takes him through many lifetimes and many shape-shifts, as well as encounters with beasts, demons and a mysterious benevolent owl spirit, Ukpika, who is linked to John's past.
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