Susan Pope book reading. Rivers and Ice: A Woman’s Journey Toward Family and Foregiveness

“Candid, quiet, and clear-eyed, Rivers and Ice is a richly authentic memoir by a nearly lifelong Alaskan, best appreciated by the reader who has little patience for overromanticized portraits of the 49th state—a tribute to fragile places, imperfect love, the allure and cost of adventure,
and the challenges of family legacies.”

Andromeda Romano-Lax,
author of The Deepest Lake,and Annie and the Wolves

“Breathtaking—a flipped raft snarled in a snag while two paddlers barely make it to shore. Breathtaking—a goshawk diving straight at the eyes of two women hikers diving fl at into mud. Breathtaking—a woman crying in the American Cemetery in Florence Italy as she recognizes for the first time the risks and sacrifices her troubled father made so she could live. Susan Pope brings alive these moments and so many more in her deeply moving evocations of fi ve generations of lives well lived in an ever-changing Alaska. A book of marvels, breathtaking.”

Peggy Shumaker,
former Alaska Writer Laureate, and author of
Just Breathe Normally and Cairn