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Half-Baked Alaska

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

September 29, 2024 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Thirteen year old Leni doesn’t have the most stable of backgrounds. Her mother, who had her at age fifteen, does the best she can. Her father is a Vietnam vet who spent years in captivity and is drowning his PTSD in alcohol and harebrained get-rich-quick schemes that are invariably abandoned halfway through. It’s the 1970s; the Flower Power movement is in the last of its heyday when Leni’s father receives a letter from the father of a fallen comrade that he’ll give him his son’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alaska, kristin hannah, The Great Alone

Zirza's CBR16 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alaska, kristin hannah, The Great Alone ·
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A journey into the Alaskan wilderness

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

December 31, 2019 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

What a wild and harrowing ride this book was. This is my first Kristin Hannah novel and it certainly will not be my last. This was a big book to undertake for the tale end of my cannonball, but it is our January book club selection and though hefty, it is a book that you can fall into and devour. Ernt, Vietnam veteran, and his wife Cora have a deep, consuming toxic love, and their daughter Leni is caught between them. Ernt is a damaged […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alaska, kristin hannah, The Great Alone, Vietnam era

cheerbrarian's CBR11 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alaska, kristin hannah, The Great Alone, Vietnam era ·
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