One of my master naturalist friends recommended this book to me. Velma Wallis wrote Two Old Women, a story about survival near the arctic circle. The book is short and I finished it in one 2 hour sitting. Life is tough for the two women. One of them is 75 years old and she is the younger one of the two. The nomadic tribe they belong to decided that these two women are more of a burden to the starving tribe so they are left behind. Rather than die the two women decide to try to survive. Not only do they manage to survive but they actually thrive and have set a store of dried fish aside before the next winter. Their tribe, still struggling to survive, decide to go back and find the women and welcome them back. The two women are wary, as one would be after being dumped and ostracized as they were. The two old women end up saving the tribe with their success. This is a good story but I would recommend you read it in August; not a cold week in February.
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