If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name

“Delightful… . The writing is simple yet graceful… . A pleasure to read.”
–USA Today

“Lende offers touching stories about neighbors with whom she shares wedding celebrations, potluck dinners, tears for missing fishermen–all the joys and sorrows of family life in a remote town.”
–People

“[A] beautiful, funny, compassionate story… . When, now and again, you reading is interrupted by tears, they will be the sweet sort.”
–Michael Perry, author of Montaigne in Barn Boots

“Part Annie Dillard, part Anne Lamott, essayist and NPR commentator Heather Lende introduces readers to life in the town of Haines, Alaska … subtly reminding readers to embrace each day, each opportunity, each life that touches our own and to note the beauty of it all.”
–The Los Angeles Times

“Dense and powerful… . Tiny jewels that, gathered together, create a stunning effect of pure, dazzling light.”
–The Grand Rapids Press

“This is something tender and brave–using death as an introduction to lives and loves and fabric of community in a northern town. Heather Lende provides powerful witness.”
–Seth Kantner, author of Ordinary Wolves

Heather Lende has contributed essays and commentary to NPR, the New York Times, and National Geographic Traveler, among other newspapers and magazines, and is a former contributing editor at Woman s Day. A columnist for the Alaska Dispatch News, she is the obituary writer for the Chilkat Valley News in Haines and the recipient of the Suzan Nightingale McKay Best Columnist Award from the Alaska Press Club. Her previous bestselling books are Find the Good, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs, and If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name. Lende was voted Citizen of the Year, Haines Chamber of Commerce, in 2004. Her website is heatherlende.com.

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