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Book Review of If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name : News from Small-Town Alaska

If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name : News from Small-Town Alaska
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This is a lovely book, full of the joy, grief, humor, tragedy and irony of small-town living, topped off with the challenges of living in Alaska. Little newspaper snippets start each chapter, which reminded me very much of the local newspaper of my South Carolina hometown. People are people, no matter where you live.

I was shocked by a reviewer who was bothered by the Christianity in the book. There is no proselytizing - simply a message that while you can't always like one another, tolerating one another is good, and loving one another is even better.