<p>Rosalie MacKenzie is headed nowhere until she sees Smokey, a Siberian husky suffering from neglect. Rosalie finds the courage to rescue her, and soon Rosalie and Smokey are immersed in the world of competitive dogsled racing.</p><p><br>Rosalie discovers that behind the modern sport lies a tragic history: the heartbreaking story of the Chukchi people of Siberia. When Stalin's Red Army displaced the Chukchi in 1929, many were killed and others lost their homes and their beloved Guardians--the huskies that were the soul and livelihood of their people.</p><p><br>Alternating between past and present, telling of a struggling Chukchi family and a young woman discovering herself, Andrea Thalasinos's<i>An Echo Through the Snow</i> takes readers on a gripping, profound, and uplifting dogsled ride to the Iditarod and beyond.</p>