"It should be established at the outset that while certainly patterned on former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, Sarah Pagen, the fictional author of "Alaska by Heart: Recipes for Independence, " is her own animal. The Pagen we meet in this decidedly funny sendup of politics, Alaska, Alaskans and our most famous Alaskan, has never occupied the governor's chair or any other political office. But that doesn't stop her from running for the highest office in the land, because God has told Pagen that this is the job He has chosen for her. Pagen is a believer in independence, free markets (especially for marijuana) and Jesus, with mail-order degrees in 'home economics, discipleship and Christian apoplectics.' Her ability to skin a moose, lead a prayer and denounce the 'homosocialists' who apparently control our nation, as well as her desire to trigger the events that will lead to the Apocalypse prophesied in the Book of Revelations (she repeatedly refers to the coming events as "the Rupture"), are, in her deluded mind, enough to qualify her for command. It's painfully obvious by this point that "Alaska by Heart" is brazenly sacrilegious and that Monaghan isn't too concerned with incurring the Lord's wrath. However, it should be noted that.she never descends into spite or hatefulness.

As over the top as she takes it (and boy, does she ever), she keeps it funny by never being overtly cruel to her targets Chock full of nauseating recipes, pain-inducing puns, savage satire and gleeful irreverence, "Alaska by Heart" refuses to be refudiated. It's funny." --David A. James, "Fairbanks Daily News-Miner"".