If You Lived Here I Would Know Your Name was not a nobel prize winning book, but it was a fun read. A non-fiction story about a family who lives in small-town Alaska. The wife-mother writes the local obituaries and through her eyes you get to know the townspeople, their way of life and the hardships endured by living in Alaska. I loved the closeness that comes with neighbors in a small town and the amount of compassion shown towards one another. Life is hard and accidents and death seem to be plentiful in this town, but together they pull together. There is nothing captivating or dramatic about this story, but it did give me respect for their way of life and appreciation for my own.