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Threadbare: Class and Crime in Urban Alaska

Threadbare: Class and Crime in Urban Alaska

Kudenov, Mary

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Series: Alaska Literary

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ISBN10: 1602233403
ISBN13: 9781602233409
Publisher: Univ Of Alaska Pr
Published: Jul 15 2017
Pages: 125
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Alaska's perch at the geographic corner of civilization isn't all wilderness and reality TV. There's a darker side too. Above the 49th parallel some of the nation's highest rates of alcoholism, suicide, and violent crime can be found. While it can easy to write off or even romanticize these statistics as the product of a lingering Wild West culture, talking with real Alaskans reveals a different story.

Journalist Mary Kudenov set out to find the true stories behind this end-of-the-road culture. Through her essays, we meet Alaskans who live outside the common adventurer narrative: a recent graduate of a court-sponsored sobriety program, a long-timer in the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center for women, a slum-landlord's emancipated teenage daughter, and even a post-rampage spree killer. Her subjects struggle with poverty and middle-class aspirations, education and minimum wage work, God and psychology. The result is a raw and startling collection of direct, ground-level reporting that will leave you deeply moved.

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