The Great Alone

This is one of those books that you never forget. Leni and Cora, battling not only the Alaskan wilderness but the wild in her Vietnam vet father are two characters I will never forget. Hannah has a way of writing women characters in vivid colors, and characters who would be villains in a lesser writer's hands with cold humanity, in all its shades of grey.

As with The Nightingale, read with a box of tissues at hand.