![]() ![]() It is a story of mental health issues relating to post-traumatic stress disorder, co-dependency, and domestic violence. The story follows the family from Leni’s perspective as they arrive, learn to survive in the Alaskan bush, and interact with their new community. ![]() Cora will follow Ernt anywhere and so the family uproots their meager lives in suburban Seattle and settle on inherited land in the fictional town of Kaneq, Alaska. Leni Allbright is the teenage daughter of Ernt, a Vietnam war veteran, and Cora, his young, doting wife. Summary of The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah I read it on the fifth chance I got and I regret not making time for it earlier. Read The Great Alone the first chance you get. I tell you this merely to say Don’t be like me. ![]() This is of no fault of Hannah and her coming-of-age story of a girl adapting to life in Alaska in the seventies with a set of troubled parents. A look through my library activity shows that I attempted to read or listen to The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah four times before it stuck. ![]()
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