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I wasn't expecting Julia to like this as much as she did. I only took it out from the library because the cover art was interesting to me. I wasn't sure what to expect from the title. For me the most interesting part of the book is the note to the reader in the beginning. Barron tells the readers how, when he visits South America, he found out about the Cueva de las Manos, or, 'The Cave of Hands'. This cave is covered with paintings of hands. In the middle of these hands, if one painting of a left foot. Barron tells how archaeologists have learned there are a total of 890 separate hands, the oldest dating back 9,000 years. That's pretty intense if you ask me. These hands have come from the people of the Tehuelche tribe, the people native to Patagonia. Barron goes on to tell how there are no Tehuelche left. These people were killed or made to leave by others who wanted their land. Barron even lets the reader know that the last known survivor only just died in 1960. So, after seeing this cave and these paintings of so many hands - and of course, the lone left foot, Barron decided to create this story. And he created a good story. I suppose it's called a 'coming-of-age' story of sorts. A young boy wants to hunt with his Father. He wants to be a man. After deciding to prove himself worthy he gets himself into a bit of a jam. A little luck helped him out of this predicament and he moves on. This is where he finds the cave. But while he's looking at the many hands covering the cave walls the painter, Pajar, sees him and forcefully tells him to go. Auki listens and starts to leave when he hears Pajar in trouble. The same sort of trouble Auki himself only just before had found himself in. Instead of walking away and going home Auki returns and saved the old man's life. Pajar explains to Auki that the hands on the cave walls come from the tribes elders. That those hands are the hands of his people and they did so many different things. They did so, so much but