The Ghosts Are Laughing

Ron Hyde was a boy during the Cold War, hungry for something bigger than what he could see from his window. One day on a school bus he wrote a list of everything he thought he'd need when the bomb came. He didn't know he was actually drawing a map.

After his parents' divorce, Ron spent many of his formative years among the streetlights, smokestacks, and sirens of Flint, Michigan. He also followed his father to the Alaskan Bush-more specifically, to a Yup'ik village called Goodnews Bay on the...