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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 287 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the success of her first book and a near-fatal bicycle collision, the author contemplates both her spiritual and temporal recovery and reflects on how the community of Haines, Alaska, helped her through the ordeal.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air, and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery, people can vanish without a trace and funerals are a community affair. Heather Lende posts both the obituaries and the social column for her local newspaper. If anyone knows the going-on in this close-knit town-from births to weddings to funerals, she does.
Whether contemplating...