Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.7 / 5.0

An excellent glimpse into the daily life of this culture!:

This is a nice, interesting, quick read that really takes one into the heart of this village and culture.

About more than 'walking marriages':

The best beginnings are always the simplest.

In Leaving Mother Lake, the reader is instantly drawn in as Namu begins her story by pleading with her mother to share the details of her birth. With this seemingly simple request made at her mother's knee, Namu unfolds the world in which she grew up and all of the important players. She tells her own coming of age story but she also shares the stories of her village and her people.

It's easy to see why she wanted to leave such a remote and impoverished... more info

Run, Namu, Run--Taking the road less traveled by.:

Fascinating. This is a very absorbing book, told in an easy, personable style. To be sure, some of Namu's reminiscences seem to have come to us right out of Huckleberry Finn-they strain credulity just a little. Like when she goes to meet her pen pal, and reacts violently to the fact that he is not the way she had pictured him: "How dare you be so ugly!" This book is Namu's life as told to an anthropologist, and some of the anecdotes appear to have been tweaked a bit for effect. Namu herself alludes to this... more info

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