A Woman in the Polar Night

A Woman in the Polar Night

by Christiane Ritter

4.22
Nonfiction
Memoir
Contemplative
Quiet
Atmospheric

Ritter’s memoir recounts living in the Arctic with her husband for a year. Survival here is quiet, domestic, and deeply psychological. The landscape is beautiful but unforgiving. Ritter’s observations are precise and reflective. Isolation reshapes her inner world. A unique, contemplative survival story.

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