After this suspenseful teaser, which makes me want to sneak a peek ahead to the concluding pages, Olemaun backs up in time to describe a book that her sister owns which entranced Olemaun.
In the introduction, Olemaun writes that her nickname of “Fatty Legs” came about because of a nun who forced her to wear a pair of red stockings that made her legs look enormous-and that she made those stockings disappear.
Set in the 1940s, Fatty Legs is an autobiographical account of a determined eight-year-old from an Inuvialuit community in the Arctic Circle. This true tale of Olemaun and her wish to attend a faraway residential school has drama, realistic characters, and educational value. Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton is my first exposure to stories about the Inuit, and it’s a good one.
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