Braverman Blair - Welcome To The Goddamn Ice Cube Chasing Fear And Finding Home In The Great White North - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North. Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen she had left her home in California moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska. By turns funny and sobering bold and tender Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube charts Blair's endeavor to become a tough girl someone who courts danger in an attempt to become fearless. As she ventures into a ruthless arctic landscape Blair faces down physical exhaustion being buried alive in an ice cave and driving a dogsled across the tundra through a whiteout blizzard in order to avoid corrupt police and grapples with both love and violence as she negotiates the complex demands of being a young woman in a man's land. Brilliantly original and bracingly honest Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube captures the triumphs and the perils of the journey to self - discovery and independence in a landscape that is as beautiful as it is unforgiving.
Title: Welcome To The Goddamn Ice Cube Chasing Fear And Finding Home In The Great White North
Author(s): Braverman Blair
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062311573
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/21/2017