For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the white people encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds a new birchbark house; every fall they go to ricing camp to harvest and feast. They move to the cedar log house before the first snows, and celebrate the end of the long winter at maple-sugaring camp. But the rhythms of their lives are shattered when a visitor comes to their winter lodge, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever.

The DPL Book Group meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month from September to May, at 6:30-7:30 pm in the Gold Room of the Main Library. Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk of the Main Library 4 weeks before the meeting.