This is a beautiful book that revolves around a mother and daughter and their survival story in the cold region of Alaska. I started reading this book in the beginning of January 2019 when Toronto started looking more like Alaska. So I was able to relate with the book. ;) Kristen Hannah has done an amazing job of describing the wilderness of Alaska and how newbies underestimate the beauty and the peril this region will expose them to.
I really liked the way the Author built some strong characters around the story. My favorite characters are Large Marge, Tom Walker, Leni and and Cora. All characters are complex in their own way including Leni and they accept things and situations which a normal person wouldn’t under normal conditions. Like Cora accepting her husband’s physical assaults, Leni lying about her family in school, Large Marge leaving her job as a DC lawyer to settle down in Alaska. Large Marge who welcomes the family to Alaska has some interesting things to say about Alaska.
“Everyone up here had two stories: the life before and the life now. 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.”
“Alaska herself can be Sleeping Beauty one minute and a bitch with a sawed-off shotgun the next. There’s a saying: Up here you can make one mistake. The second one will kill you.”
I liked Kristen’s other book “the Nightingale” but with “Great Alone”I have become an admirer. I am impressed with the amount of research she did to write this book and the way she shaped the characters. Great Alone is soon going to be a movie and I am looking forward to it!
I really liked the way the Author built some strong characters around the story. My favorite characters are Large Marge, Tom Walker, Leni and and Cora. All characters are complex in their own way including Leni and they accept things and situations which a normal person wouldn’t under normal conditions. Like Cora accepting her husband’s physical assaults, Leni lying about her family in school, Large Marge leaving her job as a DC lawyer to settle down in Alaska. Large Marge who welcomes the family to Alaska has some interesting things to say about Alaska.
“Everyone up here had two stories: the life before and the life now. 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.”
“Alaska herself can be Sleeping Beauty one minute and a bitch with a sawed-off shotgun the next. There’s a saying: Up here you can make one mistake. The second one will kill you.”
I liked Kristen’s other book “the Nightingale” but with “Great Alone”I have become an admirer. I am impressed with the amount of research she did to write this book and the way she shaped the characters. Great Alone is soon going to be a movie and I am looking forward to it!
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