Helpful Score: 2
I think the point of the review is to help other PBS readers decide if this is a book that they will enjoy. Life is too short to read bad books. This book is set in Alaska, and really makes you feel like have visited Alaska both past and present. This is a great complex story about the women of Alaska. You get a history lesson without feeling like you are getting a history lesson. The style of the author is not zippy, or zany, but it is deep, thinking, symbolic,and moving. It is 1986, Brandy our main character is new to Alaska, and needs to find some answers in her life. She is having sex by page 6 and doing coke by page 8. She does drugs often, and many others do as well. No one is ever accused of having a drug problem but they are often called Coke whores, which Brandy is not she claims. So really the issue with Brandy isnt that she has a drug problem, but more of a Who am I ? problem. Of course she will figure it out, but she has learn a few things from some natives, and their ancestors before she can do that.
So yes, this book is really worth reading if you can get past the constant partying.
So yes, this book is really worth reading if you can get past the constant partying.
