title: Rough Crossing: An Alaskan Fisherwoman's Memoir (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)
author: Rosemary McGuire
description: "<em>Rough Crossing: An Alaskan Fisherwoman's Memoir</em> is worth the price of admission for its stellar prose alone. With lean, forward-moving sentences and a keen eye for essential detail, Rosemary McGuire captures the Alaskan seascape and the nearly unrelenting toil of fishing its dangerous waters so fully that I felt as immersed in the experience as if I were reading Hemingway. But the protagonist here is a young woman, who does not yet know that 'running away to sea is always about what you run from, a life that seems to have lost its color,' and it is this running that pulls this already compelling story into the deeper waters of the universal. This is a superb memoir."--Andre Dubus III, author of <em>House of Sand and Fog</em>
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  # [ABOUT THE AUTHOR](contents.xhtml#c_ata)
  
  
  
  
  
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  Hugo Award–winning and bestselling author [Sarah
  Gailey](http://us.macmillan.com/author/sarahgailey?utm_source=ebook&utm_medium=adcard&utm_term=ebookreaders&utm_content=sarahgailey_authorpage_macdotcom&utm_campaign=9781250174659)
  is an internationally published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Their
  nonfiction has been published by _Mashable_ and _The Boston Globe,_ and they
  won a Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Their most recent fiction credits
  include _Vice_ and _The Atlantic_. Their debut novella, _River of Teeth,_ was
  a 2018 finalist for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Their bestselling adult
  novel debut, _Magic for Liars,_ was published in 2019.
  
  
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