Setting and Perspective of Legend of A Suicide

The setting is in the waste land of Alaska, which symbolizes and foreshadows isolation, starvation, depression, fear, false hope, and even failure. As I began this novel I was not sure what to think about it. I knew is was a good novel based on my piers approval, but did not know what to expect for myself. Starting the book I thought of all the places I would live, have a family, and later possibly commit suicide and Alaska was not my first choice of places. The novel is also from the point of view of the little boy, which was also shocking. I would have predicted that the novel would be in the point of view of the person that takes his/her life.