"In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the Indigenous Sámi reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected herders has a dramatic awakening and dedicates his life to the church, his impetuous son, Ivvár, is left to guard their diminishing herd alone. By chance, he meets Mad Lasse's daughter Willa, and old ways of every kind--of cultures, of beliefs, and of political divides--are uprooted as Willa follows the herders on their arduous migration to the sea"--Dust jacket flap.
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