From deep dives into Alaska history to subarctic noir fiction and graphic novels, here are our reviewers’ favorite books of the North from 2021:
Anchorage Daily News book reviewers Nancy Lord and David James present, in no particular order, the 2021 works — including fiction, nonfiction and graphic novels — that they found most memorable and meaningful.This isn’t a ranked list and certainly shouldn’t be considered a “best of 2021.” I only read a fraction of what was published, and because books have differing objectives it’s often unfair to rank them against each other.
The Klondike gold rush has been so exhaustively written about that it isn’t easy to make it new again, but that’s what Brian Castner accomplishes withRather than a chronological telling of the event that forever transformed the North, Castner opts to zigzag through time, exploring the lives of several key players. The book follows both the famous and relatively obscure as they came north and, for the most part, failed to realize their dreams of gold but lived notable lives regardless.
Kale Williams began his polar bear journey in 2016 when a polar bear cub named Nora arrived at the Portland, Oregon, zoo and became an instant celebrity. He traced Nora’s story back to a wild grandmother bear in Alaska and then through the young bear’s own triumphs and perils as a zoo bear.
By strength of will and with the support of friends and their families, Waterfield not only survived her childhood but went on to build the kind of life that can give us this remarkably self-aware and forgiving book, so much richer for its understanding and beauty than many trauma memoirs.by Katie Eberhart, University of Alaska Press, 334 pages, 2020, $19.95
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