The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Amy    

historical fiction

Just not my kind of story. The Great Alone describes the harsh realities of living in small-town Alaska. Centered around a very unhappy man’s daughter and the price the family and the neighbors paid for his mental illness, it's filled with one bad situation after another. I found it depressing. The long-winded descriptions, which were obviously written as a love letter to Alaska, forced me to start skimming because I just wanted to get to the parts where things were actually happening. At least there was a happy, hopeful ending. I really don’t have much to say, though, since I didn’t appreciate it nearly as much as most people do. It wasn't nearly as enjoyable as Kristin Hannah's previous novel, The Nightingale.