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
America’s last true frontier.
In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Leni Allbright’s 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 family’s 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, Ernt’s
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 can’t-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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