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'The End of Drum-Time' captures a complicated love story in an Arctic community

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Hannah Pilvynan says she learned to wrestle a reindeer calf in the Arctic Circle. The End of Drum Time opens with an earthquake that shakes a small town in the Scandinavian Tundra. A Lutheran minister named Lars Levy, also known as Mad Lassie, is holding forth to his parishioners and their families.

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