Why did Eileen love this book?
This story captures the realities of surviving the Alaska winters before the advent of the internet, cell phones, cable TV, or increased commercial development. The descriptions of the rugged terrain, the wild animals and the harsh weather put me right there in the story.
This is nothing I was at all familiar with, so it was fascinating to read what daily life was like before more modern-day technologies made things a little easier. Yet my takeaway was that the absence of those very things actually made communities in Alaska stronger because folks up there had no choice but to depend on and look out for each other.
I also loved the evolution of the protagonist, Leni, and what she experiences throughout the book made me chew off most of my ten fingernails.
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In Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.
#1 New York Times Instant Bestseller (February 2018)
A People “Book of the Week”
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Seattle Times’s “Books to Look Forward to in 2018”
Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter…