Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what many have ever known.  In this novel about a boy growing up in the Alaskan wilderness, the reader is allowed no escape into the fuzzy myth of the Arctic, but instead is led down its true trails, feeling the pliers' pinch of cold, tasting salmon shared with shivering sled dogs, hunkering in an igloo while blizzards moan overhead.  With his siblings and father, Cutuk Hawcly lives a day's sled-drive away from the nearest Inupiaq village, their link to the outside world.  Reared entirely on the land in the presence of wolves, moose, and ravens, Cutuk's imagination is shaped by his father Abe; the legendary hunter, Enuk Wolfglove; and the faraway nearing drone of an America he has never seen.