Alaska-based author visits Winslow bookstore
Published 11:49 am Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Award-winning Alaska-based author/photographer Kim Heacox will visit Eagle Harbor Book Company to discuss his latest novel “Jimmy Bluefeather” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8.
The book relates the story of Old Keb Wisting. He is somewhere around 95-years-old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die.
He also thinks he thinks too much.
Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native, Old Keb’s the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa that he has nothing left to live for, Old Keb comes alive again and finishes his last canoe with the help of his grandson.
Together (with a few friends and a crazy but likable dog named Steve) they embark on a great canoe journey. Suddenly, all of Old Keb’s senses come into play, so clever and wise in how he reads the currents, tides and storms. Nobody can find him. He and the others paddle deep into wild Alaska, but mostly into the human heart, in a story of adventure, love and reconciliation.
Heacox has lived in Alaska for 25 years. He has written four books for National Geographic – most recently “An American Idea: The Making of the National Parks.” He has made numerous journeys to Arctic Svalbard and Antarctica and spends much of his time writing about and photographing life in Earth’s polar regions.
Visit www.eagleharborbooks.com to learn more about this and other upcoming author events at EHBC.
