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Dial Press
March 2013
On Sale: March 19, 2013
272 pages
ISBN: 0679603557
EAN: 9780679603559
Kindle: B009Y4S3MK
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Non-Fiction Biography
Part adventure story, part love story, part homecoming,
Still Points North is a page-turning memoir that explores
the extremes of belonging and exile, and the difference
between how to survive and knowing how to truly live. Growing up in the wilds of Alaska, seven-year-old Leigh
Newman spent her time landing silver salmon, hiking
glaciers, and flying in a single-prop plane. But her life
split in two when her parents unexpectedly divorced,
requiring her to spend summers on the tundra with her
“Great Alaskan†father and the school year in Baltimore
with her more urbane mother. Navigating the fraught terrain of her family’s unraveling,
Newman did what any outdoorsman would do: She adapted. With
her father she fished remote rivers, hunted caribou, and
packed her own shotgun shells. With her mother she memorized
the names of antique furniture, composed proper
bread-and-butter notes, and studied Latin poetry at a
private girl’s school. Charting her way through these two
very different worlds, Newman learned to never get attached
to people or places, and to leave others before they left
her. As an adult, she explored the most distant reaches of
the globe as a travel writer, yet had difficulty navigating
the far more foreign landscape of love and marriage. In vivid, astonishing prose, Newman reveals how a child torn
between two homes becomes a woman who both fears and
idealizes connection, how a need for independence can morph
into isolation, and how even the most guarded heart can
still long for understanding. Still Points North is a love
letter to an unconventional Alaskan childhood of endurance
and affection, one that teaches us that no matter where you
go in life, the truest tests of courage are the chances you
take, not with bears and blizzards, but with other people.
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