Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, Blair Braverman
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, Blair Braverman
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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

Author: Blair Braverman

Narrator: Blair Braverman

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/05/2016

Synopsis

A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her home in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska.By turns funny and sobering, bold and tender, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube charts Blair’s endeavor to become a “tough girl”—someone who courts danger in an attempt to become fearless. As she ventures into a ruthless arctic landscape, Blair faces down physical exhaustion—being buried alive in an ice cave, and driving a dogsled across the tundra through a whiteout blizzard in order to avoid corrupt police—and grapples with both love and violence as she negotiates the complex demands of being a young woman in a man’s land.Brilliantly original and bracingly honest, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube captures the triumphs and the perils of the journey to self-discovery and independence in a landscape that is as beautiful as it is unforgiving.

About Blair Braverman

Blair Braverman is a writer, dogsledder, and adventurer. She is the bestselling author of Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, Dogs on the Trail, and Small Game, a contributing editor to Outside magazine, and a contributor to the New York Times, Vogue, This American Life, and elsewhere. She lives in the Northwoods with her husband, Quince Mountain, their kids, and their team of amazing sled dogs.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kalen

I didn't read any of the reviews of this book until I finished it. I loved this book and if you want one that features fewer men and their feelings, goddamn write it yourself. This is Braverman's story and she told it the way she wanted to.......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

I kept hearing about this book when it came out, and I occasionally get onto her viral twitter threads about her sled dogs and enjoy them, so when this popped up for sale on Kindle, I thought Why not? I was especially intrigued when I realized that she had lived for a good chunk of time in Norway, a......more

Goodreads review by E.K.

Slightly outside of my usual wheelhouse, this ARC is a memoir. I met the author at the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Author Social last week, and she was awesome. Also it's a great title. It's about dog-sledding and growing up and, it must be said, the horrible thing that men do to girl......more

Goodreads review by Sharon

I have been requesting this book from my library for over a year. I think it was on one of Oprah’s lists at some point and it had instant appeal: the title, the dogsledding, the soul-searching of a young woman, and the promise of Arctic adventures. But nope, nope, nope. Not until the 25 percent mark......more

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