title: Threadbare: Class and Crime in Urban Alaska (The Alaska Literary Series)
author:  Mary Kudenov 
description: &quot;Among those more familiar with heartbreak than happiness, Kudenov locates the dignity of hope, even for herself. Like life in these rough latitudes, Threadbare is devastating but quietly beautiful, filled with luminous moments, wry truths, and all the right questions.&quot;<br />(Sherry Simpson, author of <i>The Accidental Explorer </i>and <i>Dominion of Bears)</i><br /><br /><span>A remarkable and remarkably compassionate book...this is a book about the other Alaska reality, one of domestic violence, DUI arrests, sexual assault, suicide and always substance abuse. It&apos;s written by someone who escaped but still feels tied to this world, even if no longer a part of it. &apos;When class-passing,&apos; [Kudenov] writes, &apos;you no longer belong where you came from or fit in where you are. It&apos;s an essential loneliness.&apos;</span><br /><br /><span>--</span><i>Alaska Dispatch News, We Alaskans</i><span></span><br /><br /><span>Gorgeously written and deeply compassionate without shying away from the sometimes sad, sometimes inspiring, sometimes brutal and sometimes tragic humanity of its subjects, each portrait does its level best to explore, without judgment or condemnation, the oft-ignored truths of systematic class struggles, revolving-door incarceration, and the sheer unfair bad luck that colors so many of these peoples&apos; lives.</span><br /><br /><span>--</span><i>The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner</i>
zlib_text: ALSO BY JOHN GREEN:
  
   _Looking for Alaska_
  
   _An Abundance of Katherines_
  
   _Paper Towns_
  
   _Will Grayson, Will Grayson_
  
  WITH DAVID LEVITHAN
  
   _The Fault in Our Stars_
  
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