The Great Alone

Name: The Great Alone
Rating: 4.48 (1526828 reviews)

by Kristin Hannah

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In 1974, former prisoner of war Ernt Allbright moves his wife Cora and thirteen-year-old daughter Leni to a remote property in Alaska. He believes isolation, self-sufficiency and a new beginning will quiet the trauma and volatility that have followed him home from Vietnam. The local community helps the unprepared family learn to store food, repair their cabin and survive the approaching winter.

As darkness and confinement intensify, Ernt’s paranoia and violence become more dangerous than the wilderness outside. Leni’s friendship with Matthew Walker offers companionship and a possible future, while Cora remains trapped by love, fear and dependency. The novel combines a coming-of-age story with survival fiction and a study of how combat trauma and domestic abuse reshape an entire family.