His debut novel “Secondhand Summer” was drawn from his family’s move to Anchorage, while “Coming Home” conveys tumult in both Alaska and America.
Seward's Dan Walker is the author of “Secondhand Summer” and “Coming Home.” He started writing after retiring from teaching.
It’s a path Walker himself took as a child, when his father’s unexpected death forced his mother to move with her seven children from their Kenai Peninsula home into cramped quarters in Anchorage’s oldest neighborhood. “We moved from a cabin in the woods to a two-bedroom apartment on Government Hill,” Walker said, describing it as “a total immersion into crowded urban life.”
“There’s that opportunity to see a lot of growth,” he said. “At that age, they’re so cantankerous that a lot of people don’t like them. So to have someone that does like them, they really like that.” “My parents had beautiful language and they told this lovely story,” Walker said of the letters, found decades after they had been written in a shoebox his grandmother had stored them in. They wrote at least once a week, and their stories provide the primary narrative for a memoir Walker couldn’t have written without them. “I was so young I couldn’t remember all the pieces. So it was really great to have my parents impart all these details.
Seward's Dan Walker is the author of “Secondhand Summer” and “Coming Home.” He started writing after retiring from teaching. “My mom’s story is a real impressive story,” he said. “She worked herself up from a homesteader’s wife who had seven kids to being an executive in the hotel industry.” Walker’s brother “had terrible life-changing experiences over there and suffered from that all his life,” Walker said. This provided the theme for Walker’s second novel, “Back Home.” In it, Sam’s older brother Joe returns physically and mentally wounded from a war he had enthusiastically joined. “The real core of who is in the story is my brother Bill.”While Walker wasn’t initially a writer, he occupied himself as a child by making up stories.
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