Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North Audiobook (Free)

A wealthy and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.

Blair Braverman fell deeply in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her house in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour instruction on the glacier in Alaska.

By changes funny and sobering, daring and sensitive, Welcome towards the Goddamn Ice Cube charts Blair’s try to turn into a “challenging lady”-someone who courts danger in an attempt to become fearless. As she ventures right into a ruthless arctic surroundings, Blair faces down physical exhaustion-being buried alive in an ice cave, and generating a dogsled over the tundra through a whiteout blizzard to avoid corrupt police-and grapples with both like and assault as she negotiates the complicated demands to be a young woman within a man’s land.

Brilliantly original and bracingly honest, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube captures the triumphs as well as the perils of the journey to self-discovery and independence within a landscape that’s as beautiful as it is unforgiving.