![]() And while she talked to her father periodically throughout her childhood, they haven't spoken in a number of years, and she essentially felt he chose his life in Alaska over her. Calla hasn't seen her father since she was two years old, when she and her mother left their rural Alaska home because her mother could no longer handle the isolated lifestyle. Then she gets a phone call that her estranged father, Wren, has cancer. ![]() I've been on a bit of a roll with romance/rom-com novels lately, and this one was just as spectacular as everyone told me it was.Ĭalla Fletcher is a bit out of sortsshe's just lost her job and her relationship with her boyfriend seems to be going nowhere. Tucker's book The Simple Wild said she loved Alaska because of what she saw in the movie "Into the Wild," I actually laughed out loud, because I felt seen.Īnyway, all this preamble is just to say that The Simple Wild already had a bit of a head-start with me because of its setting, but Tucker's story of romance, family dysfunction, forgiveness, and desperately trying not to make the same mistakes your parents did really blew me away. I must say, that when a character in K.A. Of course, I'm far from the roughing-it type, so my appreciation of the "Last Frontier" comes from the pictures I've seen from those on Alaskan cruises, books like The Great Alone or The Smell of Other People's Houses, and movies. ![]() I'll admit, I have a straight-up obsession with Alaska. ![]()
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