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"Newman..is at her best bringing to life the chapters on her near feral Alaskan upbringing. You can practically smell the freshly killed game"
      —Entertainment Weekly

"Breathtaking"
      —Harpar's Bazaar

"A remarkable book: a travel memoir of the mapless dangerous seas of and territories between childhood and adulthood"
      —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!

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