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From the start, the author makes it clear that her recollections may well differ from others' and that she has actually changed names to protect people and their survivors. As a memoir strategy, this has a pleasing restraint. In fact, however, pain and embarrassment figure heavily in Outside Passage, as the title's pun reveals. Scully knows full well the heavy price she and her sister and mother, Rose, paid for familial silence as they searched for a livelihood and safe home in the frozen north. The author is adept at conveying bewilderment, deprivation, and above all, the sense of being stranded. And in a book filled with freighted moments, mysteries, and secrets, she clearly leads us to conclusions inaccessible to her younger self. Her sister, for example, claims to have no memory at all of their childhood. "And so I realize that I was alone," Scully writes of her teenage self. "For if she remembers none of it, then, in a way, she wasn't really there, and so there's no one, no one in this whole world, who can tell me if it is true, no one who can tell me if I remember things the way they really happened." Outside Passage paradoxically tells far more--and is far more modern--than its gushing, revelation-crammed counterparts.
" More than a story of an Alaskan childhood, Outside Passage is about something far more difficult to describe--memory and the delicate skein it weaves within us and across the separations of life."--Los Angeles Times
" Lovely. . . . The subdued rhetoric of directness has a grace equal to a more heightened rhetoric."
--Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times Book Review
" The physical and emotional landscapes of this memoir stay in the mind. Julia Scully makes you feel that you've been to Alaska and heard the waves from the Bering Sea crash on its shores."--Jill Ker Conway
" In this stunning memoir, Julia Scully recounts her exotic childhood in Alaska, where a 'stark . . . treeless landscape extends on and on in every direction.' . . . That she gained such a richness of experience from such a cutoff place is one of the delights of this miraculous book."--Elle
" Irresistible. Told in a spare luminous voice. . . . The sense of place is sharp and clear as the Alaskan air itself, evoked in the icy slap of the Bering Sea, the crystalline streams tumbling over salmon-colored pebbles, the Alaskan malamutes that run in packs along the frozen, rutted streets. . . . It's a rare delight to find a book in which the setting and voice so perfectly mesh."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer
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