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ALASKA, 2024
Cassie Grossberg zipped her down parka. She put on her left glove with her right hand and used her teeth to tug her right glove over her wrist. She strapped a headlamp around her forehead, over the brim of her knitted wool hat and opened the door. It was nine o'clock in the morning, the starless sky still black as a pot of ink outside, with an icy, knife-edged wind blowing hard enough to make the sides of her wooden house groan. Winter in Alaska felt like punishment. It was cold, of course, and endlessly dark. The sky was black at seven in the morning, when kids left for school.
It was dark again by three in the afternoon, when the dismissal bell rang. The hockey teams played under floodlights; the kids on the cross-country ski team practiced with headlamps. Everyone learned to live with it. Either that, or they flew off to Hawaii.
Alaska's winters suited Cassie. The sharp-edged wind found all of the gaps in her clothing-the space between her scarf and her parka's zipper, the gap between her hat and her collarand probed at them zealously. It felt purposefully cruel; a wind that held a grudge, that sidled close and whispered in your ear every shameful, stupid thing you'd ever done. It was unrelenting and pitiless. It felt like what she deserved.
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JENNIFER WEINER'S: The Griffin Sisters Greatest Hits
Revered for her smart, heartfelt and often funny novels featuring complicated yet lovable protagonists, bestselling author Jennifer Weiner has sold more than 11 million books, including In Her Shoes, which was made into a film starring Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette. Weiner's upcoming novel, The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits, out April 8, follows sisters Zoe and Cassie, who were once in a popular band that infamously broke up. Twenty years later, the world still has no idea what tore the pop stars apart. Here, an excerpt from Cassie's point of view. Pick up the next issue of FIRST (on sale March 14) for part two!
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