Soonchild

By Russell Hoban

Subjects: Pregnancy, Supernatural, fiction, Young adult fiction, Eskimos, JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Native American, Inuit, Shamans, Supernatural, Paranormal fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / New Baby, Fiction, Children's fiction, Infants, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Family, fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / Other, Father and child

Description: 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.