Caribou Island Lib/E (Audiobook)

from lukespapa

Isolating, desolating, Alaska is the perfect backdrop for this dark novel that examines a long-time marriage coming apart at the seams. When the husband decides to retreat further into Alaska's wilderness by building a cabin, he alienates his long-suffering wife while at the same time putting her...

from Litfan

Reading Caribou Island is the literary equivalent of witnessing a really horrible car accident-you really don't want to see the awfulness that's about to unfold, but there's something holding you there frozen such that you can't look away. At its core this is the story of the gradual disintegrati...

from blockbuster1994

I am predicting this will be my favorite books of 2011. I consumed this book in two days. Thank goodness for the blizzard that kept me at home. Caribou Island is a well written book, but a very depressing one, that delves into dark emotions. The characters are completely unlikeable, those people ...

from KymmAC

Such a different novel from Sukkwan Island, yet imbibed with the same sense of people living on the edges of what is bearable in life. The reader watches them take on the challenge of treading along that edge, knowing that they are walking somewhere the reader dares not walk, wondering, along wit...

from blockbuster1994

I am predicting this will be my favorite books of 2011. I consumed this book in two days. Thank goodness for the blizzard that kept me at home. Caribou Island is a well written book, but a very depressing one, that delves into dark emotions. The characters are completely unlikeable, those people ...