The weather can affect people’s mental health. Ernt finds a friend in Mad Earl, who helped give him land to settle on, and Leni makes friends with Matthew Walker’s mother when she dies. However, they find their place in the local community and befriend some of its members. The Allbright family is having a difficult time in Alaska. He thinks this will allow him to leave behind all his troubles but instead it creates more problems for himself and those around him including his daughter Leni who grows up with no friends or any other support system except for her mother until she finally leaves home at 17 years old only returning after many years away from her parents’ house where she had lived since she was born almost 20 years prior because life on her own wasn’t working out so well either especially given how much responsibility she felt towards taking care of herself without any help from anyone else which eventually made her realize that even though leaving home was hard at first eventually it would be better than staying there forever so one day after having enough experiences on her own both good and bad she decided that maybe going back home wouldn’t be such a bad idea after all His wife Cora supports him despite his erratic moods that have been caused by his trauma and he receives land from a deceased friend who also fought in Vietnam War. Ernt Allbright has a traumatic past due to his capture during war time.

The novel begins when Leni is 13 and her father decides to move the family to Alaska. The narrative encompasses Leni’s arrival, departure and eventual return as an adult to the small town of Kaneq. 1-Page Summary of Great Alone Overall SummaryĪuthor Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone, originally published in 2017, tells the story of Leni Allbright’s coming of age in Alaska.

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah