Enjoy the celebratory launch of Corinna Cook’s debut book of lyric essays, Leavetakings, published by University of Alaska Press in the Alaska Literary Series.
Leavetakings collects nine essays set in Alaska that ask, what can coming and going reveal about place? Might wandering serve not only to map new regions but also to map the most familiar ones, like home? As the book travels to and from people, memories, beaches, and forests, it also studies the ebb and flow of empathy and alienation that makes friendship, like place, a complex of closeness and distance.
