Rivers and Ice - Author Talk with Susan Pope

Join the Friends of the Homer Public Library and Alaskan author Susan Pope as we discuss her new book, Rivers and Ice: A Woman’s Journey Toward Family and Forgiveness. 

Thursday, August 22nd, 6-7 pm

Fireplace Reading Lounge and over Zoom!

Books available for purchase at the event through the Homer Bookstore.

About the Book

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. In her memoir, Rivers and Ice: A Woman’s Journey Toward Family and Forgiveness, she follows the threads that bind five generations of her family to Alaska. 

“With unflinching honesty, Susan Pope explores the complexities of a uniquely Alaskan life’s journey that will resonate with readers no matter where they live. Vacillating between frozen and flowing, the human and geographic landscapes she explores are hauntingly beautiful and complex. A memorable exploration of resilience and hope that gives readers much to ponder.”

          — Deb Vanasse, author of Wealth Woman, co-founder of 49 Writer’s, Alaska.

“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 flat 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 five 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.

"A gorgeous evocation of what it means to be an Alaskan, rendered with great skill and artistry by a writer who loves this place and knows how to show it."

           — Rich Chiappone, author of Hunger of Crows and Liar’s Code.

Susan Pope’s work has appeared in Alaska Magazine, Deep Wild, Under the Sun, Cirque: A Literary Journal of the Pacific Rim, Hippocampus, BioStories, Writers’ Workshop Review, HerStry, Canary: A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis, and Ravensperch Literary Review, among others.

Joining us virtually? Please click the Zoom link below to join the webinar:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88318006151?pwd=Nc82gDpVBuzda83jbrlAfjMi9cCiSy.1

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