Synopses & Reviews
This is a powerfully rendered story of a twenty-year-old newlywed transplanted from New Hampshire to a remote island in the immense Gulf of Alaska. Here, she must learn to live communally with her new family in primitive conditions without running water, electricity, or contact with the outside world. Even more challenging, she enters the dangerous and exhausting world of commercial salmon fishing. With an unflinching gaze, the author writes incisively about her first fifteen seasons on the island, exploring paradoxes of wilderness living, her changing spirituality, her difficult transition from young woman to wife and mother, and her unsual childhood that prepared her for this uncommon life.
Synopsis
Surviving the Island of Grace is a powerfully renderedstoryof atwenty-year-oldnewlywed transplanted from New Hampshire to aremote islandin the immense Gulf of Alaska.Here, she must learn to live communally with her new family in primitive conditions without running water, electricity, or contact with the outside world.Even more challenging, she entersthe dangerous and exhaustingworld ofcommercial salmon fishing.
Synopsis
As a twenty-year-old newlywed transplanted from New Hampshire to a remote island in the immense Gulf of Alaska, Fields must learn to live communally with her new family in primitive conditions without running water, electricity, or contact with the outside world.
About the Author
A resident of Kodiak, Alaska, Leslie Leyland Fields is a wife, mother of six, commercial fisher, world traveler, writer, editor, and teacher of creative nonfiction in Seattle Pacific University's Master of Fine Arts Program.