Book Rec of the Day 4/28/2007

MEMOIRS

Haines, Alaska, is so small it doesn’t have a stoplight and so isolated that at times it’s nearly inaccessible. Your neighbor might be a tattooed minister, a stay-at-home mom, a gold miner, or a moose. This short, sweet memoir reveals the pleasures of tiny-town living in warm, personable vignettes. It will definitely make you want to visit Alaska, and it might make you look at your own town with new eyes. “Colorful and captivating,” says Publishers Weekly.

IF YOU LIVED HERE, I’D KNOW YOUR NAME: NEWS FROM SMALL-TOWN ALASKA, by Heather Lende (Algonquin, 2005)