Rough Crossing

An Alaskan Fisherwoman's Memoir

Part of River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize Series
By Rosemary McGuire
Published by UNM Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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About The Book

Both an adult coming-of-age tale and a candid look at the Alaskan fishing industry, this is the story of a woman in a man's world.

About The Author

Rosemary McGuire

Born on a homestead outside Fairbanks, Alaska, Rosemary McGuire worked for fifteen years as a commercial fisherwoman and has traveled most of Alaska's river systems by canoe. Currently she is a research technician in the Arctic. Her book of short stories, The Creatures at the Absolute Bottom of the Sea, was published in 2015.

Product Details

  • Publisher: UNM Press (March 1, 2017)
  • Length: 200 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780826358028

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Rough Crossing: An Alaskan Fisherwoman's Memoir 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 House of Sand and Fog

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An Alaskan Fisherwoman's Memoir

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By Rosemary McGuire
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