Val is the narrator of the book . She has come to Greenland, where her brother died, to learn how to communicate with a girl who had been frozen and successfully thawed and revitalized. Val has a difficult time with language the girl speaks, it is not what she expects it to be, it is far older. The writing is good, the other characters believable. Each character has struggled with death. I felt the cold of Greenland as I read. I enjoyed it