Title: If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name
Subtitle: News from Small-Town Alaska
Description: Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air—and only when the weather is good. There’s no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful place. Her offbeat chronicle brings us inside her busy life: we meet her husband, Chip, who owns the local hardware store; their five children; and a colorful assortment of friends and offbeat neighbors, including aging hippies, salty fishermen, native Tlingit Indians, Mormon spelunkers . . . as well as the moose, eagles, sea lions, and bears with whom they share this wild and perilous land.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Friends and associates, City and town life, Frontier and pioneer life, Family, Outdoor life, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Travel, Lende, Heather, 1959-, Frontier and pioneer life, alaska, Alaska, biography, Alaska, social life and customs, Journalists, biography, nyt:e-book-nonfiction=2013-07-21, New York Times bestseller
Places: Haines, Alaska, Haines (Alaska)
People: Heather Lende (1959-)