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When her parents are
killed by a grizzly bear in Alaska's remote Arctic, author Shannon Huffman
Polson is forced into a wilderness of grief. Her quest for healing is recounted
with heartbreaking candor in North of
Hope.
Polson travels from her
home in Seattle to the wilderness of Alaska, where she retraces her father and
stepmother's final days along an Arctic river, effortlessly weaving together
the internal landscape of grief with the exterior landscape of the Arctic,
elegantly entwining natural history, adventure and sacred pilgrimage while she
wrestles with and draws strength from her faith and memories.
This deeply moving narrative is shot through with
the human search for meaning in the face of tragedy. Readers will find inspiration
for their own challenges through Polson's journey.
- Sales Rank: #444802 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-04-09
- Released on: 2013-04-09
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Shannon Huffman Polson has written a soulful and brave book about death, life, and the complexities surrounding both. There is nothing sentimental in these pages. North of Hope shows us how personal loss and loss of our planet come from the same place: Love. This is a testament to deep change, human and wild."
-Terry Tempest Williams, author, When Women Were Birds
"Daring, perceptive, and eloquent--Polson's writing is clear and forceful. Like all true pilgrimages, this one is challenging, and well worth taking."
- Scott Russell Sanders, author, Earth Works and A Conservationist Manifesto
"Polson's extraordinary journey draws you into the depths of anguish and brings you back out realizing that while not all things fractured can be healed, the soul will gravitate toward beauty, art, and meaning if guided in the right direction."
- Alison Levine, mountaineer, polar explorer, and team captain of the first American Women's Everest Expedition
"North of Hope is an enthralling story of loss, courage, and redemption told by a gifted, original, and brave new voice, Shannon Huffman Polson."
- Robert Clark, award-winning author of ten books, including Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces and Mr. White's Confession
"This is no ordinary memoir. To read it is to be changed."
-Jeanne Walker, author, New Tracks, Night Falling
"Shannon Huffman Polson has written a book about loss that is both unique to her personal experience and universal to the human experience. She writes with clarity, honesty, and poise."-Andrea Palpant Dilley, author, Faith and Other Flat Tires: Searching for God on the Rough Road of Doubt
"North of Hope, Shannon Polson's gripping account of the shattering, traumatic loss of her father, is a must read. It is a gift to everyone who reads this powerful, inspiring story."
-Janet Hanson, CEO and founder, 85 Broads
"North of Hope is a remarkable story about the power of the wilderness both to harm and to heal, and to provide strength and sustenance to the human spirit, no matter what the challenges."
-Nicholas O'Connell, author, The Storms of Denali ; instructor
Review
Shannon Huffman Polson has written a soulful and brave book about death, life, and the complexities surrounding both. There is nothing sentimental in these pages. North of Hope shows us how personal loss and loss of our planet come from the same place: Love. This is a testament to deep change, human and wild. -- Terry Tempest Williams, , author, When Women Were Birds
Daring, perceptive, and eloquent---Polson’s writing is clear and forceful. Like all true pilgrimages, this one is challenging, and well worth taking. -- Scott Russell Sanders, , author, Earth Works and A Conservationist Manifesto
Polson’s extraordinary journey draws you into the depths of anguish and brings you back out realizing that while not all things fractured can be healed, the soul will gravitate toward beauty, art, and meaning if guided in the right direction. -- Alison Levine, , mountaineer, polar explorer, and team captain of the first American Women’s Everest Expedition
North of Hope is an enthralling story of loss, courage, and redemption told by a gifted, original, and brave new voice, Shannon Huffman Polson. -- Robert Clark, , award-winning author of ten books, including Dark Water and Mr. White’s Confession
As Shannon Polson poignantly recounts the loss of family members to a grizzly attack in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, framing her memoir around her own trek into the wilderness where they perished, she comes to believe that there is grace and wonder in the most unlikely places, that the landscape’s wildness can teach you about letting go of control, and that Easter doesn’t arrive until you’ve experienced Good Friday. Anyone who has endured the grief of losing someone or something they loved will identify with the advice Polson was given: “When tragedy comes into your life, the most beautiful thing you can do is keep moving forward.” -- Cindy Crosby, , former National Park Ranger and author of By Willoway Brook (www.cindycrosby.com)
Shannon Polson brilliantly tells the story of venturing into the Alaskan wilderness to find the place where her parents were killed. Interwoven with that journey is the story of how she auditioned for and sang the Mozart Requiem. This is no ordinary memoir. To read it is to be changed. -- Jeanne Walker, , author, New Tracks, Night Falling
Shannon Huffman Polson has written a book about loss that is both unique to her personal experience and universal to the human experience. She writes with clarity, honesty, and poise. The end of her story has the surreal feel of fiction---a moment so unbelievable and fitting that it must have happened. Readers will find themselves caught up in that poetic end, and in the breadth of story that comes before it. -- Andrea Palpant Dilley, , author, Faith and Other Flat Tires: Searching for God on the Rough Road of Doubt
North of Hope, Shannon Polson’s gripping account of the shattering, traumatic loss of her father, is a must read. In the end, Shannon is faced with a choice---does she choose the beauty and majesty of life or succumb to the pain and trauma of the loss of her beloved father? It is only after her father’s death that she truly listens to, and embraces, his message---to believe in her own strength and to live a life of meaning and purpose. Shannon’s book is a gift to everyone who reads this powerful, inspiring story. -- Janet Hanson, , CEO and founder, 85 Broads
North of Hope is a remarkable story about the power of the wilderness both to harm and to heal, and to provide strength and sustenance to the human spirit, no matter what the challenges. -- Nicholas O’Connell, , author, The Storms of Denali; instructor, www.thewritersworkshop.net
About the Author
Shannon HuffmanPolson writes about the borders we navigate every day. Her first book, a memoir called North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey, is out in March 2013 from Zondervan/Harper Collins. Her essays and articlesappear in a number of literary magazines and periodicals and her work isanthologized in More Than 85 Broads as well Be Here Now: TravelStories From Around the World (due out in January 2013.)
Polson was bornin Anchorage, Alaska, and grew up loving the outdoors. After studying EnglishLiterature at Duke, she headed from the ivory tower to the tarmac of Ft.Rucker, AL, where she flew Apaches in the first crop of women attack helicopterpilots. An MBA at the Tuck School at Dartmouth transitioned her to five yearsin marketing at two companies. Now she's back in the books, and back in love.Polson has scuba dived on three continents, sky dived on two, and climbed thehighest mountain in North America and Africa. When she's not writing, she canbe found in the mountains of Washington and Alaska with her family, accompaniedby their Alaskan husky, serving on the board of the Alaska Wilderness League, singing witha local choral group and participating as an active member of her church. In2009 Polson was awarded the Trailblazer Woman of Valor award by Senator MariaCantwell. Polson earned her MFA in the summer of 2012 from Seattle PacificUniversity.
Polson's memoir North of Hope, about a trip in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge rafting theHulahula River, follows a tragic journey from the year before looking at lifeand death through the narrative of adventure, music, family and faith. It isdue out in April 2013.
Most helpful customer reviews
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Lyric beauty about life and death
By Arthur Digbee
While they were rafting down a remote river in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Polson's father and stepmother were killed by a barren-ground grizzly bear. This book is Polson's attempt to make sense of the events and deal with the grief - as well as reflect on her parents' lives, and her own. It's structured around her own trip down the same river, including a visit to the fatal campsite.
She weaves several different themes together. Some parts are her own memoirs; others reflect on Dad's and Kathy's lives, individually and jointly. (Polson's mother, who divorced Dad about twenty years previously, is nearly absent from the book.) Polson explores what we find important about wilderness, though the book is more about people than about nature. After a breakup with a long-term boyfriend with whom she remains friendly, Polson rafts down the Hulahula with an estranged brother and his girlfriend.
In addition to the raft trip, the second major theme meditates on sections of Mozart's Requiem Mass in D (Kyria, Tuba Mirum, Offertorium, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Lacrymosa). Polson is part of the choir that will be performing this Mass under the direction of Izaak Perlman, providing some opportunities for religious reflection in the first year after Dad and Kathy's deaths. Despite this recurring note, this is the least religious book that I have ever seen from Zondervan (a religious press). Polson's faith is real, but only one part of her life, and just one theme in this book.
Polson writes beautifully and honestly. This book will appeal to those dealing with grief, those who love Alaska and wilderness more generally, some religious readers, and people who love well-written memoirs.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
A powerful, poetic exploration of grief though sacred pilgrimage
By Niki Collins-queen, Author
Shannon Polson's powerful, eloquent memoir "North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey" is the deeply moving story about her search for meaning in the face of her parent's tragic, untimely death. Rich, her father and Kathy, her step-mother were killed in a rare grizzly attack while rafting the Hulahula River in Alaska's remote Arctic Wilderness in 2005.
Forced in the wilderness of grief Shannon leaves her home in Seattle to retrace Rich and Kathy's final days in a raft along the Arctic River with Ned her adopted brother and his work colleague Sally.
Shannon describes the three of them as a motley crew. Especially since she was going on a personally significant journey with Ned a person she had never been close to and Sally someone she didn't know.
Her poetic writing weaves together her painful internal landscape of grief with the exquisite yet harsh exterior landscape of the Arctic. Like her father, Shannon's deep appreciation for the untamed and remote wilderness of the Alaskan Arctic moves her story effortlessly between adventure, natural history, sacred pilgrimage, music, nature and faith.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A well crafted narrative you should discover for yourself, North of Hope is well worth reading!
By Noelle the Dreamer
North of Hope can only be described as a well crafted narrative you should discover for yourself, particularly if you have ever experienced a deep loss! No amount of lyrical prose on the part of this reviewer could provide you with an inkling of the account of one daughter's journey into the Alaskan wilderness. Retracing her father's last trek across the Artic a year later is Shannon's hope to make sense of the tragic event which took his and her stepmum's lives.
Woven throughout the grief and despair of having lost a father, a friend and confident are skillful descriptions of barren lands, incomparable Artic wildlife and flashbacks to earlier and happier times interspersed with tales of the bear's place in Native folklore around the globe.
Together with adopted brother Ned and friend Sally, Shannon starts her quest in Kaktovik, at the northern edge of Alaska, their goal to raft the Hulahula river following directives found in her father's diary.
Arranging for their rafting supplies and a bush pilot to fly them to Grassers strip, their starting point, is however the easy part. The weather does not cooperate and requires of the trio an overnight stay in town, the writer's description of the only available accommodation an interesting highlight!
North of Hope is a labour of love, a search for continuation, a testament that you can go on despite the grief or perhaps because of it. It is also a story of deep faith shared by someone who finds herself on the edge of uncharted land, her larger than life father gone forever. To understand Shannon, her undeniable love of music and adventures, you should first read her biography.
In the end, like a beautiful but unfinished symphony, Shannon's 'thoughts about going to the Artic are not merely an interest but a necessity, to see the place where they died and the river which became their Requiem'...
She needed to finish their trip.
Note: I delayed posting this review as I shared this story with my family. By now a well thumbed book, we are in total agreement: North of Hope is worth much more than 5 stars!
I received this ARC from HANDLEBAR MARKETING as part of their blogger review program. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC 16 CFR, Part 255 'Guides concerning the use of endorsements and testimonials in advertising. I was not asked to write a positive review and all opinions expressed are entirely my own.
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