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Title: Haines, Alaska, R.I.P.
Review: After finishing this book I felt like I had just watched an episode of "Seventh Heaven", something I don't particularly recommend. Heather Lende writes like a minister's wife: everyone is basically good and kind; don't make waves; make hubby feel like a man while he kills a billy-goat; the joy of small things, like smoking your own salmon, running marathons in between numerous pregnancies, adopting a Bulgarian orphan when things get slow......Everything is so wonderful in Haines, Alaska, I smacked my forehead in frustration---I coulda lived there! No alcoholism, no drugs, no despair, I don't think there's any cursing, either.I guess as an obituary writer Lende feels it is her job to clean up and sanitize the mess of life, but in book length?In fact, this account reads like one big obituary of a small town in Alaska-- a pleasant, uncontroversial bromide for the living.
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