500 Great Books By Women discussion

Once Upon an Eskimo Time, Edna Wilder, 1987, United States, BIOGRAPHY

"...This is a land where every day's weather determines what each person will do to find, cook, and store food; where the people will relieve themselves; where the moss used for personal hygiene, menstruating women, and baby diapers will be found; what will be wrapped around the newborns who, within hours of birth, are strapped to their mothers' backs. Interwoven with these particulars of daily life are the ancient legends, told to Nedercook by her parents with the delightful requirement that she herself tell them again and again until she gets them right..."

(J.L., p. 152)