Should we go back to Alaska?” I asked Rebekah each spring, on the phone. We’d sit in silence, pondering our excuses, before deciding that this was not the year. Maybe next year. Maybe the year after that. But soon Rebekah was married, pregnant, settled in a way I could only marvel at from a distance. She said, “I would never let my daughter do what we did.” Blair Braverman and her parents lived in Norway when Blair was a ten year old girl; she spent her […]
Writing as therapy
As a teenager, Blair Braverman — who always had an obsession with the North — lived as an exchange student in Norway, where she had a really messed up experience with her host family (namely, the father). So she spent the next 15 years or so trying to work through that by traveling to very, very cold places and putting herself in difficult and dangerous situations, trying to find some peace. I did really enjoy certain parts of this book. Anything involving her work with sled […]