The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah • 2018
Devastation Rating
trauma family survival loss
Our Take
A Vietnam veteran takes his family to off-grid Alaska and what seems like wilderness adventure becomes a trap with frostbite and fists. Hannah writes abuse escalation with uncomfortable accuracy. The landscape mirrors the psychology: beautiful, isolated, and utterly indifferent to what happens inside. The family's isolation is both self-imposed and inevitable — Hannah understands that abusers build their geography first.
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