This is a book that has been sitting on my bookshelf for a long while and I kept saying I was going to read it and then I never did. So I FINALLY got around to reading it even though it took me a bit to finish it.

Short synopsis:
Ernt is a Vietnam POW vet with severe PTSD; he can’t keep a job, he moves his family from place to place because he wants to find a home for all of them to be “happy”. Well, this opportunity arises for Ernt and his family to move to Alaska. He feels that this is their moment to finally find their happiness. So Ernt, his wife Cora and their teenage daughter Lenora (Leni) move to Alaska. Now, let me just say that a POW Vietnam vet with PTSD living in the long month’s of cold and wintery, snowy darkness do NOT mix. From the beginning, I could tell this was going to be a heart-wrenching story.

The first half of the book was a slow start, it didn’t start getting interesting for me until midway through the book. I had to get the audiobook to keep me engaged in the story because I would read a chapter or two and put it down because it just wasn’t catching my attention.

About half way into the book, the pace quickened and I got really interested in the story. One thing happened after another, the characters and the intensity of the storyline is what kept me hooked for the 2nd half of the book. This book is super emotional