There’s a saying: Up here you can make one mistake. As she cautions the Allbrights, “Alaska herself can be Sleeping Beauty one minute and a bitch with a sawed-off shotgun the next. Another key example is delivered by Large Marge, a former prosecutor in Washington, D.C., who now runs the general store for the community of around 30 brave souls who live in Kaneq year-round. If you wanted to pray to a weirdo god or live in a school bus or marry a goose, no one in Alaska was going to say crap to you.” There are many great things about this book-one of them is its constant stream of memorably formulated insights about Alaska. As Leni soon realizes, “Everyone up here had two stories: the life before and the life now. But when they move to Alaska, still very wild and sparsely populated, Ernt finds a landscape as raw as he is. The family moved so frequently that 13-year-old Leni went to five schools in four years. In 1974, a troubled Vietnam vet inherits a house from a fallen comrade and moves his family to Alaska.Īfter years as a prisoner of war, Ernt Allbright returned home to his wife, Cora, and daughter, Leni, a violent, difficult, restless man.
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