BOOKSHELF
Aug 06, 2018
3 minutes
BY JULES TORTI
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press, 2018)
Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone swiftly transports readers to an inhospitable land synonymous with hatchets and log cabin dreams. Fringe-ists, guns and Bibles are found in equal measure here: “Two kinds of folks come to Alaska. People running to something and people running away from something.”
For Ernt, Cora and their precocious daughter, Leni, Alaska was supposed to be the remedy for Ernt’s restlessness since
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