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Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood
Outside Passage A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood
Author: Julia Scully
When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage.  Two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska, where she had leased a roadhouse i...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781602231290
ISBN-10: 160223129X
Publication Date: 2/15/2011
Pages: 226
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3.5 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This was an interesting book, as a look at Alaska, as a story of an unconventional childhood. I have to admit the revealing of the mother's secrets and possibly dishonoring things which she held dear made me a little uncomfortable. The author has every right to describe how events and decisions made her feel - perhaps less to believe that her understanding of her mother's motivations are 100% correct. All in all, it held my interest.


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