{"product_id":"sisters-of-the-midnight-sun","title":"Sisters of the Midnight Sun","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"I am completely gripped by \u003ci\u003eSisters of the Midnight Sun\u003c\/i\u003e . . . The book is excellent.\" --Jessica Grose, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe stunning true story of a double homicide in the vibrant native Alaskan Iñupiat community at the arctic edge of the United States--written by the public defender at its center \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRebecca Wright is a defense attorney living in the Lower 48 when she suddenly finds herself a widow and an empty nester. In need of a radical change, she accepts a public defender position in Utqiagvik on Alaska's North Slope, an oil-rich area the size of Wyoming where the Iñupiat community holds great cultural, political, and economic power. Though she'll always be a tanik--an outsider--she works hard to gain the trust and friendship of the folks who call this singular place home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen two well-known sisters, Bernice and Wanda Ipalook, are found murdered, Wright is tasked with representing Amos Lane, a drifter on the short-list of murder suspects. Criminal charges are looming. But this is summer in northern Alaska, the season of the midnight sun, when twenty-four-hour sunlight makes it difficult for witnesses to confirm the time--or even the day--they last saw the sisters, Amos, or anyone else. Wright must navigate an unreliable client, a prosecution willing to entrap her to get a conviction, a budding romance, and a community that believes Amos might deserve a different form of justice from what the tanik legal system can provide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeaving a detailed portrait of Utqiagvik alongside Wright's complex self-portrait of an outsider in an isolated community, \u003ci\u003eSisters of the Midnight Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting true account that brings to vivid life a land at the edge of the habitable world.","brand":"Counterpoint LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45786919698479,"sku":"9781640097711","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/2855\/6847\/files\/imageloader_214058c8-e5f6-4f78-ae76-da1076fb6007.jpg?v=1786145103","url":"https:\/\/tssbooks.com\/products\/sisters-of-the-midnight-sun","provider":"tssbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}