Leigh Newman pays tribute to Alaska in “Nobody Gets Out Alive,” a collection of tales of remote wilderness, railroad camps, broken marriages and more.
“I am tough,” she acknowledges. “I grew up hunting my own food and flying airplanes. My dad treated me like one of the guys. I had my own pistol. You have to know how to do a lot of things.” It’s necessary in a place where preparation can mean the difference between life and death.
Growing up in Alaska has taught author Leigh Newman to fend for herself against the power of mother nature.“When stuff catches on fire, there’s no fire department. I’ve lost a friend to a black bear that they ran into on a hike. You always hear these stories. In Alaska, you can’t think that you have more power than mother nature. Thinking you know it all is when people die.”
While she has lived in New York on and off since 1993 — ten years were spent as a travel writer, during which time she was frequently away — she fully settled in 2004, when she became pregnant and moved to Brooklyn. Author Leigh Newman“NYC and Alaska are both survival cultures,” she says. “People speak plainly and, at the same time, are aware someone might hurt them if they speakplainly. People are very open and welcome.
“On TV, people from Alaska are often toothless and driving ice roads,” she says. “In reality, the intelligence of most Alaskans is pretty high. A lot of people came to Alaska to make it; they’re very entrepreneurial, maybe social misfits. [In the book], I wanted to show a side of Alaska that did not show people living in Alaska in the bush, under a tarp — but people doing real jobs. An accountant who’s also a bush pilot. Being a lawyer, but climbing mountains on the weekend.
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