PositiveHarper\'s ReviewHow can people best use their gifts, and what are their larger responsibilities in doing so? The memoir charts Adams’s decades living in Alaska... his youth as a full-time environmental activist, and the lifelong development of his music, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2014. ...the memoir is ambiguous as to whether there’s such a thing as true autonomy, for art or individuals. Adams is laconic about his unhappy family ... it seems he might prefer to have sprung straight from the landscape...