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Braverman has completed the Iditarod, a race established nearly 50 years ago in which competitors travel with sled dogs in Alaska from Anchorage to Nome lasted for weeks on the reality TV show Naked and Afraid and published a memoir about her time learning the craft of dog sledding and navigating the often-brutal culture of the outdoors community. On Twitter, Braverman’s dedicated followers call themselves #uglydogs and find community in the comments of the long, photo-driven stories Braverman tells on the social media platform when she’s not taking time off to write.Īnd her dedicated fans have had plenty to celebrate in recent years. There are working sled dogs, retirees, and fosters in her and her husband’s collection of “20-something” dogs, and many of them have their own fan bases.

Are the producers giving them an extra challenge? Or are they wrapped up in something more dangerous? Soon Mara and the others face terrifying decisions as “survival” becomes more than a game.Ī provocative exploration of the comforts, rituals, and connections we depend upon, Small Game is a gripping thriller and a poignant story about finding the courage to build a new life from the ground up.As the co-owner of a team of sled dogs, Blair Braverman finds herself pressed to figure out how many dogs she’s caring for at any given moment. When the cast wakes one morning to find something has gone horribly wrong, fear ripples through the group. But trusting her fellow survivors? Not part of Mara’s skill set. Mara’s unusual, rugged childhood has prepared her for the discomforts and hard work ahead. And Ashley, the beautiful but inexperienced one who just wants to be famous. Whisked by helicopter to an undisclosed location, Mara meets her teammates: The grizzled outdoorsman. Now she just has to live off the land with her fellow survivors for long enough to get the prize money. She was surprised when reality TV producers came knocking at Primal Instinct-the survival school where she teaches rich clients not to die during a night outdoors-and even more shocked to be cast in their new show, Civilization. A gripping debut novel about a survival reality show gone wrong that leaves a group of strangers stranded in the northern wildsįour strangers and six weeks: This is all that separates Mara from one life-changing payday.