Outside passage : a memoir of an Alaskan childhood

by Julia Scully

Hardcover, 1998

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Available

Publication

New York : Random House, c1998.

Description

When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska, where she had leased a roadhouse in the tiny settlement of Taylor. Julia had no idea what to expect when she arrived, but to her surprise, she found a healing power in the stark beauty of the vast tundra. Later, she reveled in the boisterous, chaotic boomtown atmosphere that prevailed

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I'm catching up adding books to this site to use as my own reference.
Read it several years ago, so details are sketchy.
It's the genre of book that I dearly love to read.
An insight into an extremely difficult family life and into the extreme difficulty of life in northern Alaska in those years.
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enjoyed it.
Read in 2008.hhhh
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