St. Martin's Press
February 2018
On Sale: February 6, 2018
448 pages ISBN: 0312577230 EAN: 9780312577230 Kindle: B06Y5WRS2C Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
And for a family in crisis, the ultimate test of the human spirit.
From the author of the worldwide phenomenon, The Nightingale, comes a story of a family in crisis and a young girl struggling to survive at the edge of the world, in Americaโs last true frontier. In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Leni Allbrightโs volatile, unpredictable father, Ernt, a former POW, loses another job, he makes an impulsive, desperate decision: he will move the family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the land in a spectacular wilderness.
At first, the eighteen hour sunlit Alaskan summer days and the generosity of the locals make up for the familyโs lack of preparation and dwindling resources, but winter in Alaska will reveal their every weakness. As the vast Alaskan landscape grows smaller and smaller in the darkness, Erntโs fragile mental state deteriorates, and the dangers outside of their remote homestead pale in comparison to the danger within. On their small piece of land, miles from anyone, Leni and her mother, Cora, learn what all Alaskan homesteaders learn: they are on their own. There is no one to save them this far from civilization.
At once an epic story of human survival and an intimate portrait of a family tested beyond endurance, The Great Alone, offers a glimpse into a vanishing way of life in America. With her trademark combination of elegant prose and deeply drawn characters, Kristin Hannah once again delivers a canโt-put-down novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the remarkable, enduring strength of women. A novel as big and spectacular as Alaska itself.
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