If you lived here, I'd know your name

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

People: Heather Lende (1959-)

Places: Haines,  Alaska,  Haines (Alaska)