“Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while ...
"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more ...
"Shabbat comes with its own holiness. We enter not simply a day, but an atmosphere." Abraham Joshua ...
“Democracy! It’s glorious chaos,” the owner of the local paper observes. It’s testimony to Lende’s special gift that, in spite of the pain and sadness involved in her political adventure, she leaves her readers with that same conclusion.
—Janet Brown, author and former bookseller (review from Shelf-Awareness).
A New York Times Bestseller
The L.A. Times called it “Part Annie Dillard, part Anne Lamott…”
“Lende writes emotionally but never sentimentally, giving us the best Alaska memoir of late, maybe the best ever.“
Booklist Starred Review
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