Mom Cora is devoted and determined to keep the family together. Now Leni cringes at the shouting and tension as the dark moods overtake her dad. Leni and her mom long for the happy, smiling Ernt that existed before he went to Vietnam. When he inherits a cabin and homestead in Kaneq, Alaska, from a deceased war buddy, the chronically un- or under-employed Ernt whisks his family away from Seattle to Alaska. Leni is the only child of former Vietnam POW father Ernt, and his devoted, free-spirited wife, Cora. The novel is told primarily through the eyes of bright, introspective teenager Leni Allbright. The story opens in the turbulent 1970s, when Vietnam War protests were in full swing. In this case, nature becomes both beauty and beast in Kaneq, Alaska, a remote town on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. While many conflicts exist and develop among the people, the overriding conflict is man vs. It becomes a towering character throughout the novel, symbolizing, revealing and battling the other characters. Rarely has the setting played as important a role in a novel as Alaska does in The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah.
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