Penina Keen Spinka
Autor de Picture Maker: A Novel
Sobre El Autor
Penina Keen Spinka lives with her husband in Glendale, Arizona.
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Obras de Penina Keen Spinka
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Spinka, Penina Keen
- Nombre legal
- Spinka, Penina Keen
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Sun City, Arizona
- Relaciones
- Spinka, Barry (Echtgenooot)
Warshaw, Rasha Nechama (Dochter)
Wasserman, Tzivia Leah (Dochter)
Keen, David Terry (Broer)
Keen, Gerry (Broer) - Agente
- Meg Ruley
Stephanie Tade
Miembros
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Miembros
- 347
- Popularidad
- #68,853
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 16
- Idiomas
- 1
"Walk in another's moccasins" with this fascinating Odyssey!
This is a fascinating study of Northeastern Native American culture during the 14th-15th centuries A.D.. In this coming-of-age tale, Picture Maker, a young Iroquois girl experiences Algonquin, Naskapi, and Inuit culture first hand before she discovers her ultimate destiny in Greenland.
Into this fascinating and romantic tale, Ms. Spinka intricately weaves the cultural traditions of each group of Native Americans as well as the history of the Norse in Greenland (as a matter of fact, the description of the Norse in Greenland has inspired me to eventually read Jane Smiley's THE GREENLANDERS, as discussed by Ms. Spinka in the "Author's Notes"). She capably shows the social and religious differences - both the good and the bad - of all the cultures discussed and truly makes the reader understand what it is like to "walk in another person's moccasins". This book is wonderful for gaining a deeper sense of cultural understanding and tolerance - I think older adolescents would enjoy this book as well as adult readers!… (más)