The Great Alone

Kristin Hannah 2018

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
Alaska PTSD domestic abuse survival

Our Take

A Vietnam vet takes his family to Alaska and the isolation that heals him also kills him — the darkness arriving with the winter and the violence escalating with it. Hannah traces the geography of domestic abuse: the beauty outside and the terror inside, the love that cannot save anyone from the damage.

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