What I remember, what I know

Larry Audlaluk was born in northern Quebec, or Nunavik. He was almost three years old when his family was relocated from Nunavik to the High Arctic in the early 1950s. They were promised a land of plenty, what they found was an inhospitable polar desert. Larry tells of loss, illness, and his family's struggle to survive, juxtaposed with excerpts from official reports that conveyed the relocatees' plight as a successful experiment. Larry leads the reader through his life as a High Arctic Exile--through broken promises, a decades- long fight to return home, and a life between two worlds as southern culture begins to encroach on Inuit traditions.