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If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name
News from Small-Town Alaska
Paperback,
296 pages
(also available in
Electronic book text
)
ISBN: 9781565125247
(156512524X)
Published by Algonquin Books
$12.95(US)
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about If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name
Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air—and only when the weather is good. There’s no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful place. Her offbeat chronicle brings us inside her busy life: we meet her husband, Chip, who owns the local hardware store; their five children; and a colorful assortment of friends and offbeat neighbors, including aging hippies, salty fishermen, native Tlingit Indians, Mormon spelunkers . . . as well as the moose, eagles, sea lions, and bears with whom they share this wild and perilous land.
about Heather Lende
Heather Lende has contributed to the Christian Science Monitor, NPR’s Morning Edition, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Alaska magazine. She also writes an online column for the Alaska Dispatch. Her Web site is www.heather-lende.com.
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