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Why The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah Would Make Great Summer Reading:
- It is hot outside, but it is COLD in this book. That’s right, The Great Alone is set in winter, in ALASKA, prior to this whole global warming thing.
- Do you like to sink your teeth into big books over the summer? Well, this book is 440 pages and yes, it looks to be engaging throughout ALL of those pages.
- Picture it, Alaska, 1974. I know time machines aren’t real and books are the closest we can get to another time. When I read a book, I want to be transported. I think that The Great Alone will do the trick.
- This book is STILL in the top 100 on Amazon and it was released back in February. People are still buying it, so it must be good. Also, it has an average 4.35 rating with over 75,000 ratings on goodreads. If that’s not an endorsement, I don’t know what is. The people have spoken.
- Okay, so the summary makes this book sound emotional and like it covers the full range of the human experience, and I am just HERE for that.
- If you’re in a town with cool people and have a book club, I guess this would make a legit book club read too. Alas, I have no cool people to be in a book club with.
Want to know more about this book while you’re scrolling your social medias and your internets:
- Visit Macmillan.com
- Like Kristin Hannah on Facebook
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Read an excerpt from The Great Alone
Watch a video of author Kristin Hannah on The Great Alone
Here’s the summary though:
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller (February 2018)!Â
“A TOUR DE FORCE.” —Kirkus (starred review)
Alaska, 1974.
Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed.
For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival.Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.
Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown.
At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. In a wild, remote corner of the state, they find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the Allbrights’ lack of preparation and dwindling resources.
But as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves.
In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska—a place of incomparable beauty and danger. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature.
Also, a little bit about Kristin Hannah in case you were curious:
Kristin Hannah is the New York Times bestselling author more than twenty novels. A former lawyer turned writer, she is the mother of one son and lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.
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