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Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics
Maybe someday
36
/100
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Readers
32/100Critics
40/100Scholars
Author:
Heather Lende
Publisher:
Algonquin Books
Date:
June 30, 2020
Following the 2016 presidential election, writer Heather Lende, inspired to take a more active role in politics, runs for assembly member in Haines, Alaska-and wins. But tiny Haines-a place accessible from the nearest city, Juneau, only by boat or plane-isn't the sleepy town it appears to be.
What The Reviewers Say
In this fraught, bewildering American era, Heather Lende’s latest memoir is a blessed balm.
Heather Lende offers a down-to-earth account of life in local politics in her fourth book set in Haines, her small Alaska town.
Lende’s writing has a homespun, plainspoken quality; at certain moments, she writes like a grandmother telling a meandering tale through a series of slow-paced anecdotes and tangents that require patience from the reader.
Journalist Lende...delivers a detailed and amiable chronicle of her three-year term as assemblywoman in Haines Borough, Alaska, a municipality of roughly 2,500 people in the state’s southern panhandle.
