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I raced through this book enjoying it very much. It provides an alternate history and narrative about the far north with interesting characters and setting. It is a tale of the Inuit being hurled into the 20th century, including the way civilization and affluence makes us sick. (Consumption is a disease and it is also a way of life--consumer society, illegal drugs, finding in food in the Arctic.) The Inuit are coming in off the land and living in small communities. Also a murder mystery.
Patterson's nonfiction also looks interesting.born in Northern Ontario in 1964, now lives in B.C.
medical school U. of Manitoba
-worked as a doctor in the far north and in British Columbia
- now living on Saltspring Island off the east coast of Vancouver Island, just north of Victoria
-worked as a doctor in the Inuit hamlets of the west coast of Hudson Bay since 1994
reviews:
http://theliteraryword.blogspot.com/2007/08/consumption-by-kevin-patterson.html
http://www.cbc.ca/books/booksandauthors/2010/10/country-of-cold.html
interviews:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEptZ05MjTw
http://www.canadianliving.com/life/community/interview_with_author_kevin_patterson.php
http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm/author_number/1475/Kevin-Patterson
Articles, Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/politics/2003/03/patient-predator
http://motherjones.com/politics/2007/06/talk-me-my-father-frontline-medicine-afghanistan
