Son of a Midnight Land

A powerful new memoir by Atz Kilcher about growing up with a hard father in a hard land

Atz Kilcher learned many vital skills while helping his parents carve a homestead out of the Alaskan wilderness: how to work hard, think on his feet, make do, invent, and use what was on hand to accomplish whatever task was in front of him. He also learned how to lie in order to please his often volatile father.

Much later in life, as Atz began to reflect on his upbringing, he discovered that the work of p...