Christina Reagle’s Life at Fifty Below Zero: An Alaskan Memoir on Teaching and Learning
is a memoir about one woman’s Alaskan journey, beginning in 1972 as she accompanied her husband to teach in a small rural village. The transition from the job interview in a San Francisco hotel room—” Do you know what a honey bucket is? Can you empty one?” to arriving by plane to a community of less than 200 people seemed surreal. Researching information about the far away forty-ninth state generated more questions than answers. A welcomed discovery was that winter was only nine to ten months long, not all twelve…
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