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Synopsis
This is a mother's story about raising her two boys in Alaska were wilderness is just out the back door of their home.
Written with wit, wisdom, and a grateful heart, A Tender Distance presents fifteen finely-crafted vignettes that explore the perils and joys of raising two fearless boys from toddlerhood to young men. Mothers everywhere will relate to the hard, familiar choice between holding close and letting go.
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Review
""A Tender Distance is written with a calm, deep grace. It is a poenm of a book, usffused wsiht courage, sadness, and beauty.""
---Richard Goodman, Author of French Dirt, The Story of a Garden in the South of France and Soul of Creative Writing.
About the Author
Kaylene Johnson is author of six books about Alaska and the people who live there. She is also a longtime Alaskan. Her books include the New York Times Bestseller, "Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down; Canyons and Ice: The Wilderness Travels of Dick Griffith; Portrait of the Alaska Railroad; Trails Across Time History of an Alaskan Mountain Corridor "and her memoir "A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My Sons in Alaska. "Her award-winning articles and essays have appeared in" Alaska "Magazine," " the "Louisville Review, The Los Angeles Times, Spirit, " and other publications. She holds a BA from Vermont College, and an MFA in Writing from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.
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- PublisherAlaska Northwest Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0882407724
- ISBN 13 9780882407722
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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