“Written in her middle age, the essays in Jennifer Brice’s memoir Another North cover her perspectives on place, selfhood, and life in general.
Alaska, with its massive scale and minus-fifty-degree winter temperatures, molded and shaped Brice, even after life took her elsewhere—to Hamilton, a small town in upstate New York where she learned about the coldness of not fitting in. Brice struggled to find a community of like-minded people in Hamilton, feeling pervasive discomfort—“a little bit like being on Prozac: the highs are not as high, the lows not as low.”
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