![]() ![]() Ernt has been moving his family around ever since he got home, looking for some kind of happy new start. But he has been “weird since the war,” which is about as clinical as “The Great Alone” gets, and he is this book’s designated bad guy. When “The Great Alone” begins, in 1974, Leni is 13 and her father is still reasonably sane. The book’s main character, Leni Allbright, is the daughter of a beautiful hippie mother, Cora, and a father, Ernt, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. The terrible troubles are completely one-note. Instead, she came up with “The Great Alone,” an Alaskan family drama that bears almost no surface resemblance to “The Nightingale.” It’s a heart-tugger written in borderline young adult style, combining terrible troubles with notes of overripe romance. ![]() That was “The Nightingale” (2015), based on a true story and centered on two sisters caught up in the French Resistance, and it was such a hard act to follow that Hannah says she wrote and discarded a novel she could have published next. ![]() ![]() Kristin Hannah has written more than 20 novels, but it took one monster hit to really put her on the map. ![]()
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