Breakup pdf

达娜·斯塔贝诺（达娜斯塔贝诺，1952 年 3 月 27 日出生于阿拉斯加安克雷奇）是一位美国科幻小说、悬疑/犯罪小说、悬疑/惊悚小说和历史冒险小说作家。斯塔贝诺的许多书籍都以她的家乡阿拉斯加为背景，她在那里由她的单亲母亲抚养长大，她在阿拉斯加湾的一个鱼苗馆工作和生活，并以对阿拉斯加地理、地质、天气和野生动物的大量描述为特色。斯塔贝诺于 1973 年获得阿拉斯加大学新闻学学士学位，并且，在决定尝试成为一名作家后，后来参加了 UAA 的 MFA 计划。她的第一部小说《第二颗星》于 1990 年被 王牌科幻小说 收购。随后又出版了另外两本科幻小说。她的第一部 食物和酒 悬疑小说《谋杀的寒冷日子》于 1993 年获得了埃德加最佳平装原著奖。她 2011 年的 食物和酒 悬疑小说 虽然没有死 获得了 2012 年 Nero 奖。2007 年，斯塔贝诺 被评为阿拉斯加年度艺术家2011 年，斯塔贝诺 在她的博客上写了一篇内容丰富的文章，讲述了她童年的阅读经历以及这些经历如何影响她写侦探小说。

Breakup pdf 达娜斯塔贝诺

In Breakup, Kate Shugak's loyalties - to the land, her heritage, her home - are put to the test when a series of mishaps lead to murder. April in Alaska is typically a period of rebirth and renewal, and after the long winter Kate has nothing more strenuous on her agenda than paying her taxes. But mayhem abounds as the meltoff flows; this year's thaw is accompanied by rampaging bears, family feuds, and a plane crash quite literally in Kate's own backyard. What begins as a series of headaches escalates into possible murder when a dead body is found near her homestead. Initially unwilling to involve herself in the investigation, preferring instead to write off each odd occurrence as a breakup-related peculiarity, Kate is drawn irresistibly to seek the truth. Compelled by her friends to act as problem solver and guided by the spirit of her Aleut grandmother, she finds herself slowly taking on the role of clan leader, a post she is bound to by honor and blood. As breakup becomes increasingly fraught with danger and destruction, Kate must decide whether she can cross the line from passive observer to instrument of change, assuming the role of elder as the mantle of responsibility is passed.
"The best thing about breakup," Kate said, "is that it's after winter
and before summer." Mutt wasn't paying attention. There was a flash of tail fur on the other side of the yard and the 140-pound half-husky, half-wolf was off with a crunch of brush to chase down the careless hare who had made it. Breakup for Mutt meant bigger breakfasts. Breakup for Mutt meant outside instead of inside. Breakup for Mutt meant a possible close encounter with the gray timber wolf with the roving eye who had beguiled her two springs before, then left her flat with a litter of pups. All five had been turned over to Mandy a nanosecond after weaning. One had been on the second-place team into Nome the month before. Kate tried not to feel resentful at being abandoned. It was just that it seemed someone ought to have been present, looking on with sympathy as she plodded through the million and one tasks produced by the season's first chinook, which had blown in from the Gulf of Alaska the night before at sixty-two miles per hour and toppled the woodpile into the meat cache, so that the miniature cabin on stilts looked knock-kneed."