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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  **The Ones We Leave Behind**
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright 2020 © Deanna Lynn Sletten
  
  
  
  
  
  Kindle Edition
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either
  the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any
  resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is
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  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or
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  eBook ISBN – 13: 978-1-941212-55-4
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover Designer: Deborah Bradseth of Tugboat Design
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Novels by Deanna Lynn Sletten**
  
  
  
  
  
  The Women of Great Heron Lake
  
  
  
  
  
  Miss Etta
  
  
  
  
  
  Night Music
  
  
  
  
  
  One Wrong Turn
  
  
  
  
  
  Finding Libbie
  
  
  
  
  
  Maggie’s Turn
  
  
  