Leni is hopeful when they first arrive in the small outpost of Kaneq.
Cora, his wife, loves him and tries to help him. Ernst, the father, is a Vietnam veteran and former POW who has struggled emotionally since the war. In The Great Alone, the Allbrights are a family who move to a small town in Alaska for a new start.
Plot Summaryįor the Detailed Plot Summary, click here or scroll all the way down. Of course, aside from the general locale, I quickly discovered that these are two very different books - in tone, subject matter, time period and etcetera. I’m always a little hesitant to jump into books with similar premises or similar settings. I knew I’d read it sooner or later, since I’d heard so much about it, but it got pushed off for a while when I was reading The Snow Child (also about a family trying to make a life in Alaska). As referenced in the book, the title comes from a line from a poem by Robert Service (“The Shooting of Dan McGrew”) where he refers to the remote Alaskan lands as the “Great Alone”. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah is a story set in the Alaskan wilderness.
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