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Another North

A transcendent interrogation on belonging, love, and longing.

 

In Another North, Brice asks what it means to and how to love, drawing on her personal experiences and friendships while engaging with literary, philosophical, and spiritual voices鈥擬argaret Atwood, Montaigne, the Bible鈥攁s she navigates the hazy borders between self-indulgence, lust, longing, and love.

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Jennifer Brice is the author of three books: The Last Settlers, Unlearning to Fly, and Another North. Her essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The Cimarron Review, The Gettysburg Review, River Teeth, American Nature Writing, and The Dolphin Reader, among others. Born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, she now lives in upstate New York, where she is a professor in the English and Creative Writing department at 糖心传媒.

Because, like Brice, we鈥檙e equally enticed by glittery bits of family lore, gossip鈥 and the perfect white T-shirt. 

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Join us in person or on Thursday, November 6, for Jennifer Brice鈥檚 reading and book-signing. This event will take place at 4:30 EST in Persson Auditorium. Refreshments available.

Beyond the Book

  • Kristine Morris calls Another North 鈥渁s bold as the act of flying a small plane over vast expanses of snow fringed by mountains鈥 in this .
  • 鈥淭he family origin myth, central to the entire book, returns with increasing meaning, and only at the end does Brice uncover an astonishing truth about it,鈥 writes Nancy Lord in the .
  • Brice says, 鈥淲hat I鈥檓 really pretty good at is going down lots and lots of rabbit holes鈥 in this .

The romantic in me will always be seduced by that phrase, true north (also: magnetic azimuth, pole star), especially as a metaphor for the companion of one鈥檚 heart. The practical side of me knows where the compass needle points instead: toward plain-old magnetic north.

Another North