Fall 2009: Kaylene Johnson presents 'A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My Sons in Alaska'

Wednesday, Oct. 14, 5-7 p.m.
UAA Campus Bookstore

Kaylene Johnson's book A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My Sons in Alaska has received excellent reviews: "A Tender Distance is written with a calm, deep grace. It is a poem of a book, suffused with courage, sadness and beauty." -- Richard Goodman, author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France. And poet and creative nonfiction writer, Molly Peacock, writes, "with a journalist's quick eye and a spiritual observer's shining soul, the remarkable Kaylene Johnson measures the growth of her two boys as they come of age in Alaska's wilderness..."

Parking is free on Fridays, and the public is welcome to attend this event. For more information contact Rachel Epstein at (907) 786-4782.