The Great Alone Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Current Interest (2017) still failing to understand why

still failing to understand why she chose to abandon the family and Tokyo for this desolate town years ago

she has had a lifelong love affair with clothes and fashion

Modern politics emphasizes unity and similarity

in the second decade of the 21st century

The Great Alone Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Current Interest (2017) still failing to understand whyAlaska, 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 Americas last true frontier. Thirteen year old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide