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from celticlady53

Every once in a while, if you're lucky, you come across a book that is always on your mind. You find yourself at work, the grocery store, yoga class, wondering what the characters are doing, if they're okay, what adventure lies ahead. The Great Alone, by Kristin Hannah, is one of those books. It ...

from hes7

A story of love, family, friendship when faced with a past that haunts and isolates, set in a state that has always fascinated me, Kristin Hannah's newest novel did not disappoint me. I enjoyed the interesting twists it took, even as it broke my heart a few times.

from judithrs

The Great Alone. Kristin Hannah. 2018. Oh, my! What a book. It was so compelling I read it in two days. It is a heartbreakingly sad story of a family. The Allbrights are in trouble. Ernt, the father, a former POW comes home from Vietnam barely functional. In the early 1970s there is little help f...

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I have a cousin in Alask sa and I have always wondered about her experiences growing up. Her fathe r and mother left Minnesota when she was younger and took their four children into a place that was wilder than I ever would dream of. Her father worked on the pipeline. There was no way that I coul...

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The best and worst parts of The Great Alone are the detailed descriptions of the expansive, rugged Alaskan wilderness. The author, Kristin Hannah, goes to great depths in describing the Alaskan terrain, as well as the cabin in which the McBride family resided in Homer. At times I appreciated thes...