Braverman is a wonderful storyteller. I knew her first from her tweet threads about her dogsled team, usually both humorous and poignant, and then from her thrilling novel Small Game. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube is somewhere between the two and yet not what I expected. I'll admit I was taken aback by her forthrightness in sharing her emotional life, but it was never gratuitous. I appreciated the structure of the memoir, bouncing between her youth and young adulthood, her trips to Norway and her summers in Alaska.