<p>A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.</p><p>Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her home in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska.</p><p>By turns funny and sobering, bold and tender, <em>Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube</em> charts Blair’s endeavor to become a “tough girl”—someone who courts danger in an attempt to become fearless. As she ventures into a ruthless arctic landscape, Blair faces down physical exhaustion—being buried alive in an ice cave, and driving a dogsled across the tundra through a whiteout blizzard in order to avoid corrupt police—and grapples with both love and violence as she negotiates the complex demands of being a young woman in a man’s land.</p><p>Brilliantly original and bracingly honest, <em>Welcome to the Goddamn