CONSUMPTION: A NOVEL

By: Kevin Patterson

In Rankin Inlet, a small town bordering the Arctic Ocean, the lives of the Inuit are gradually changing. Victoria knows nothing but the nomadic life of the Inuit until, at the age of ten, she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and evacuated to a southern sanitarium. When she returns home six years later, she finds a radically different world, where the traditionally rootless tribes have uneasily congregated in small communities.  Kevin Patterson deftly exposes the costs and consequences of cultural assimilation, and the emotional toll that such significant lifestyle changes take on communities. TitlePeek