Soonchild

By Russell Hoban

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

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.