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Still Points North: Surviving the World’s Greatest Alaska Childhood

by Leigh Newman

. March 2013. 272p. 978-1-40006-924-8. 26.

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Deputy editor and head of books coverage at Oprah.com, Newman reports on a childhood in Alaska staring down bears and an adulthood spent staring down Mafia bosses in Russia. The upshot, she finds, is an almost defiant self-reliance—and an inability to open up to others. This memoir could change all that.

Reviewed by Sue White , Oct 01, 2012

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