Tiktala

Patricia Morley is professor emerita of English and Canadian studies at
Concordia University, and the author of Kurlek, Margaret Laurence: The
Long Journey Home, and As Though Life Mattered: Leo Kennedy’s Story.

Tiktala, a young girl, lives in the high Arctic with her mother and
seriously depressed father, whose condition is indicative of a wider
malaise affecting most of the villagers. They are forgetting their old
ways. Tiktala’s desire to become a carver leads her on a search for a
spirit helper. Her quest turns into an extraordinary journey that takes
her beneath the sea.

Tiktala is a tale of great beauty about transformations and the eternal
search for wisdom. It takes the reader on a journey out of ignorance,
through danger, into understanding. Lбszlу Gбl’s lovely mix of
reality and fantasy in full double-page watercolor paintings perfectly
complements the text. Highly recommended.