Weather turns treacherous in an instant, and simply navigating the landscape and waterways can turn tragic without warning. Residents must be on constant alert for wild bears and wolves. Leni soon learns that the flip side of the beauty is the danger and darkness that come with it. It was otherworldly somehow, magical in its vast expanse, an incomparable landscape of soaring glacier-filled white mountains that ran the length of the horizon, knife-tip points pressed high into a cloudless cornflower-blue sky.” “Even with all the pictures Leni had studied and all the articles and books she’d read, she hadn’t been prepared for the wild, spectacular beauty of Alaska. They are all overwhelmed by the majestic beauty of their surroundings. While lingering doubts remain, Leni and Cora are encouraged by Ernt’s enthusiasm and determination. The family holds on to the hope that their new life in Alaska will change everything for the better.
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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