Road Song: A Memoir

In 1969, Natalie Kusz and her family abandoned the city, packed up the car, and headed to Alaska. They ended up a hundred miles from Fairbanks in a dilapidated house surrounded by 258 acres of spruce, birch and willow¿and no road. When the first winter came¿with Mr. Kusz working in Prudhoe Bay, money running out, and temperatures 60 below¿the Kusz family was living so close to disaster that the question was not when it would strike but whom.