Lessons Across Latitudes: An Alaskan Memoir

As a child in apartheid South Africa, Patrick Pillai dreamed of living in an impossibly different place: the Bering Strait in Alaska. But he was of Indian descent, and opportunities rarely went to people like him. So, he sought a life of fun, working random jobs—from switchboard operator to dock worker—until a moment on the job convinced him he could no longer remain in an unjust system. The field...