![]() ![]() ![]() Kristin Hannah’s book is as vast and expansive as the Alaskan wilderness. It looked me in the face and was like “Tyler, full stop, because Leni Allbright deserves all of your attention.” It took my ten days to finish this book, which is to say I chose to patiently savor it, and not let it run away from me too quickly. The Great Alone threw me into my largest gap between finishing books. Ernt seals them off from the world into their homestead, and Leni must fight her own father for a happier life. She meets Matthew, the son of Ernt’s town enemy, and as they fall in love, she risks the wrath of her paranoid father. ![]() When Leni witnesses him physically abusing Cora, her view of life is permanently altered. As they head into an Alaskan winter, the daytime shrinks and shrinks, and Ernt’s darkness begins to fill the space left behind. When they arrive in the remote wilderness of their new home, they are supported and cautioned by their neighbors to take their situation seriously, and not to underestimate the harshness of their surroundings. It is 1974 women still can’t sign for credit cards, and Cora, a dutiful wife and mother, encourages Leni that Alaska will be a new start for the family, and hopes that the version of Ernt she loved before the war will return to her. Leni’s young life is turned sideways when her father, Ernt, a Vietnam War POW, whisks her family away for a new life in the wide frontier of Alaska. ![]()
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