title: Purely Alaska: Authentic Voices from the Far North
author: 32 writers from rural Alaska
description: Purely Alaska portrays the stunning physical world of Alaska and its spectacular challenges. These stories open hearts and memories to reveal the pain and strength, the joy, endurance and faith of those who survive and thrive within Alaska's often unforgiving wintery power. ----William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, author of Fifty Miles from Tomorrow<br /><br />Here is a fascinating guided tour of the real Bush Alaska, not the prettified version we see in tourist brochures. Here we meet the good and the bad, the happy and the sad... ----Stan Jones, author of Village of the Ghost Bears<br /><br />Here are the beginnings of a true indigenous literature from modern rural Alaska. These stories describe amazing situations in matter-of-fact style. Within the raw immediacy of the writers experiences, we find great human themes of life in transition pain and loss, redemption and exaltation all depicted before the astonishing backdrop of Alaska s natural and cultural landscapes. -- --Tom Kizzia, author of The Wake of the Unseen Object<br /><br />Winner - One of America's Best Regional Books 2010 --Foreword Magazine<br /><br />Here are the beginnings of a true indigenous literature from modern rural Alaska. These stories describe amazing situations in matter-of-fact style. Within the raw immediacy of the writers experiences, we find great human themes of life in transition pain and loss, redemption and exaltation all depicted before the astonishing backdrop of Alaska s natural and cultural landscapes. ----Tom Kizzia, author of The Wake of the Unseen Object
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  # 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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