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The year that Benton turned eighteen, the highway finally reached Inuvik, and he followed it due south. Despite the pairing, the story is mostly gen.
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- Part 1 of Leaving Home
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I Love This Benton Backstory So Much.
-it yields such beautiful insight into Benton’s internal mental and emotional processes
-it does this by grounding them into the physical world he lives in. The silt in the water, the sugar in the jam, the traveling library, the species of lichen, the Chainsaw Facts. Leaving Home cares about the details in the same way Benton does.
-it also brings into focus the tension/betrayal inherent in Benton being in community with Inuit and Tsimshian people and deciding to join the RCMP.
-again through grounding it in specific details: those of his relationship with Eric Kitikmeot, and also of life in the north with its economic/historical/political realities.
-It’s a story that’s about leaving home, so, you know, expect poignancy
-(If you decide to read the next stories in the series, you should know that the series is an abandoned WIP. However, this does not affect the complete-feeling of the first story. And my thoughts upon getting to the end of the short/abandoned third one were not “wtf abandonment,” but “damn, I am so grateful this exists up to this point.”)