Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
[United States] : HarperAudio, 2016.
Format: Eaudiobook
Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 08 min.)) : digital.
A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North. Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her home in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska. By turns funny and sobering, bold and tender, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube charts Blair's endeavor to become a "tough girl"-someone who courts danger in an attempt to become fearless. As she ventures into a ruthless arctic landscape, Blair faces down physical exhaustion-being buried alive in an ice cave, and driving a dogsled across the tundra through a whiteout blizzard in order to avoid corrupt police-and grapples with both love and violence as she negotiates the complex demands of being a young woman in a man's land. Brilliantly original and bracingly honest, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube captures the triumphs and the perils of the journey to self-discovery and independence in a landscape that is as beautiful as it is unforgiving.
ISBN:
9780062642851
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Read by Blair Braverman.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Read by Blair Braverman.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.