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Posted On: July 24th 2026, 09:42 pm
the great alone 🪵🛶🫎🧡
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second five star of 2026 and it’s another kristin hannah book! did it wreck me the way winter garden did? oh yeah, i was sobbing…again.
there were so many themes to this story but to me the overarching one was survival. i found myself asking over and over “what are you willing to do to survive?”
set in the kenai peninsula, 13 year old leni sets out on another adventure with her mother and father to alaska. with her father being back home from the war in vietnam, things haven’t been easy for any of them.
ernt, leni’s father, struggles with night terrors, grief, sorrow and the horror he endured at war. leni’s mother cora, remains entirely devoted to keeping her husband’s skeletons at bay, while simultaneously trying to protect leni from the truth about the type of man her father is when no one’s watching and the reality of what his hands are capable of.
in a spur of the moment decision without any consultation from anyone else, ernt decides to uproot their life again. he thinks the rural, quiet, and peace alaska brings will change their lives, and more importantly him. but leni and cora have heard it all before.
it’s there that they face not only the truth of themselves and their lives, but the wilderness of alaska. the deep, long, dark, and brutal winters where there’s nothing but cold darkness 16 hours a day for six months straight. where they’re forced to hunt for their own food, barter with others, source water, create heat, and forget the people they once were because those versions of themselves couldn’t survive it.
leni meets a boy named matthew with crooked teeth, and in my opinion you read about one of the most beautiful and tragic love stories written. a story that fills you with hope but leaves a sick twisted feeling in your stomach.
i’m falling into a kristin hannah rabbit hole! i can’t get enough of her writing.
heavy trigger warning for domestic violence. if you’re looking for something to emotionally shatter you and slowly put you back together again, this book is it!
🎶 that reminds me of the story: slow life- grizzly bear
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
second five star of 2026 and it’s another kristin hannah book! did it wreck me the way winter garden did? oh yeah, i was sobbing…again.
there were so many themes to this story but to me the overarching one was survival. i found myself asking over and over “what are you willing to do to survive?”
set in the kenai peninsula, 13 year old leni sets out on another adventure with her mother and father to alaska. with her father being back home from the war in vietnam, things haven’t been easy for any of them.
ernt, leni’s father, struggles with night terrors, grief, sorrow and the horror he endured at war. leni’s mother cora, remains entirely devoted to keeping her husband’s skeletons at bay, while simultaneously trying to protect leni from the truth about the type of man her father is when no one’s watching and the reality of what his hands are capable of.
in a spur of the moment decision without any consultation from anyone else, ernt decides to uproot their life again. he thinks the rural, quiet, and peace alaska brings will change their lives, and more importantly him. but leni and cora have heard it all before.
it’s there that they face not only the truth of themselves and their lives, but the wilderness of alaska. the deep, long, dark, and brutal winters where there’s nothing but cold darkness 16 hours a day for six months straight. where they’re forced to hunt for their own food, barter with others, source water, create heat, and forget the people they once were because those versions of themselves couldn’t survive it.
leni meets a boy named matthew with crooked teeth, and in my opinion you read about one of the most beautiful and tragic love stories written. a story that fills you with hope but leaves a sick twisted feeling in your stomach.
i’m falling into a kristin hannah rabbit hole! i can’t get enough of her writing.
heavy trigger warning for domestic violence. if you’re looking for something to emotionally shatter you and slowly put you back together again, this book is it!
🎶 that reminds me of the story: slow life- grizzly bear
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3 months agoowillthewise
Sounds like another adventurous read. She’s definitely got you hooked!!🪝 ❤️
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