Chapter One
Niniltna, June 25
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"Lots of spirits all over, this year,"
They whisper.
—A Quick Brush of Wings
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They would argue later about when it all began, perhaps
with the death in July, or maybe the meeting in Washington,
D.C., the month before, or even with the fall of the
Berlin Wall in 1989, but as far as First Sergeant Jim
Chopin was concerned it began that day in late June
when he flew his Bell Jet Ranger from the regional post
in Tok to the Bush village of Niniltna on the Kanuyaq
River, and drove the twenty-five miles of rough gravel
road through a green and fecund Park to Kate Shugak's
homestead.
"She's not there," Bobby had said when the trooper
asked for the loan of Bobby's pickup.
His wife, Dinah, a worried look on her face and baby
Katya on her hip, added, "We haven't seen her since before
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