The Smell of Other People Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
In this book, a mixture between historical fiction and a coming of age novel, we learn about Alaska just after becoming the 49th State. Those years of transition from being a Territory to becoming a State. Four seasons, four narrators, four stories, all of them intertwined to show us how hard life was in the 1970s if you were poor, pregnant or indigenous and you lived up North. A novel full of contrasts where your sense of smell is enhanced and where you feel the landscape as another character. Learn about The Ice Classic and how to fish salmon in the Yukon River, the ingredients of Eskimo Ice cream and which snow boots to buy. Get lost in Alaska where going from one place to another can take weeks, where the laws of men don’t agree with the laws of nature and where the place you inhabit is as tumultuous as the teenagers who tell us this story. LRB Author: Born and raised in Alaska, I now live and write in a yurt on a dome near Fairbanks. Before writing fiction, I spent many years work...