"The Raven's Gift has a winning plot, characters we've never met before, and intriguing details of a world most of us will never venture to -- creating a read that opens our eyes
and finds the fault lines of a heart in one breathless sitting."
- Jodi Picoult, NYT bestselling author of The Tenth Circle and
My Sister's Keeper
"The Raven's Gift is a disturbingly believable tale of a world on the edge, given the slight push to send it over. Rearden knows his Alaska, his snow and cold, the isolation in these pages enough to make you pull up the blankets and wonder what you'd do without rescue, without communication, with no one to go to for help, no one coming to the rescue. Like McCarthy's THE ROAD, there are pages in here you might shy away from reading, but hang on, once you start, you'll be along for the ride."
- Pete Fromm author of Indian Creek Chronicles and How This All Started.
Take a remote Alaskan village, add a dedicated teacher, toss in a plague. The RavenŐs Gift is a page turner with a message: We Alaskans are lost if we cannot find our own way." -
-Bill Streever, author of Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
"Don Rearden has created a kind of allegory for a people and place at risk, a generous and honest portrait of Yup'ik communities. His Alaska is one you won't yet have seen."
- David Vann, author of bestselling novels Legend of a Suicide and A Mile Down
"If you're not scared, be scared: Don Rearden's The Raven's Gift will propel you pell-mell into a terrifying future of plague on the Alaskan tundra-all too real if you've talked with elders who survived 1917-all too frightening if you have sense to know this future can start five minutes from now."
- Seth Kantner author of Ordinary Wolves
"Rearden's fresh, new voice is a kaleidoscope of cultural collision and the astonishing landscape
of the heart."
-Ron Spatz, Editor. Alaska Quarterly Review
"A many layered Alaskan intrigue which is gritty and engaging and an absolutely good read . . . all in a world, that Alaskan world -- which I could believe."
- Ron Carlson, author The Speed of Light, Five Skies, News of the World, Plan B for the Middle Class, The Hotel Eden,
and At the Jim Bridger.
"Don Rearden's writing is captivating and new. This is a writer who has many books in him. I predict he will be widely read, well respected, and greatly admired."
- Jo-Ann Mapson, author of bestselling novels Bad Girl Creek, The Wilder Sisters, and Hank & Chloe
