Rivers & Ice: A Woman's Journey Toward Family and Forgiveness

by Susan Pope

Overview

Susan Pope's memoir Rivers and Ice, follows five generations of one Alaskan family evolving with the rapidly changing landscape of the North. A rafting disaster, a failed canoe journey, a dash to reach a summit while deserting her daughter in bear country. She struggles to reconcile the competing forces in her life: the lure of travel with the safety of home; the love of family with the desire for independence; and the image of who she aspires to be with the reality of her faltering attempts at marriage, career, motherhood, grandmother-hood, and physical competence. Suicide, near-death experiences, a tumbledown inheritance, the miracle of the Arctic caribou migration. Few memoirs combine love of nature with love of family so eloquently, while at the same time acknowledging that each carries the potential for so much loss and pain. Through it all, this is the story of one woman's quest to carve a place for herself in a rapidly changing land and claim her own unique power.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186075776
Publisher:	Riddle Brook Publishing LLC
Publication date:	03/01/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	887 KB

About the Author

Susan Pope’s writing has been shaped by growing up in the wide and wild landscape of Alaska. Her stories reveal the tension between a desire for intimate ties to home and community, and a longing to flee to faraway places. With humor, humility, and courage she explores topics as diverse as mountain climbing, motherhood, the secrets of a lost diary, a crumbling family legacy, the disappointments of grandparenthood, and a fear of drowning. Her settings range from her backyard bike trails to the Kalahari desert. Susan Pope’s work has appeared in Pilgrimage, Under the Sun, The Southeast Review Online, Cirque: A Literary Journal of the Pacific Rim, Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment, Hippocampus, Under the Gum Tree, Burrow Press Review, BioStories, Writers’ Workshop Review, Alaska Magazine, Bluestem, and Burningword Literary Review, among others. Her writing reflects intimate connections to home and family in Alaska as well as a restless pursuit of faraway places. She writes from her home in Anchorage, Alaska.