My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir

Editorial Reviews. Review. "By intensively exploring the Hudson River by kayak, Susan Fox Rogers found a powerful means to connect with her community, the.
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This pensive memoir examines the role of her close connection with the river in helping her deal with the deaths of both her parents. Her graceful prose and meditative tone offer a personal view into the age-old pull of a great American river as a source of refuge and revival in difficult times.


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A quiet power builds from her eloquent observations and raw depiction of facing grief's ravages with the aid of the Hudson's solitude and space. With Rogers as a guide, the reader follows her gaze, adopting her unique perspective as she ruminates about the local histories of towns along whose shores she paddles.

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This is a rewarding and highly engaging memoir that Hudson Valley readers will no doubt want to share with their loved ones. Rogers' main message remains relevant: Her organizational style is clever; it seems like the book is moseying along but there is a reason and rightness to the order in which she relates experiences, or to the amount of time she devotes to each subject. There is Huck Finn and his raft and the Mississippi—now there is Susan Fox Rogers and her kayak and the Hudson River to add to the American canon of glorious nature writing.

As specific as it is, it will resonate with anyone who has experienced a landscape as the setting of both their inner and their outer lives. Lures and Snares of Old New York.

My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir

Like all good love stories it is poetic, sometimes sad, full of discovery and history, and ultimately life- affirming. My Reach is a special memoir about intimacy with a river, and self—and the truth that paddling is about living right. Her Hudson becomes our Hudson. Joe Vallese rated it really liked it Jul 15, Echo Duva-sprague rated it liked it May 21, Joan Brundage rated it it was amazing Jan 28, Notlikecyrus added it Oct 02, Jonathan Hall is currently reading it Oct 21, Jihyuk added it Nov 01, Lynna marked it as to-read Dec 18, Carina marked it as to-read Jan 03, Lee marked it as to-read Jan 05, Sean marked it as to-read Jan 15, Lauren Jenkins marked it as to-read Mar 11, Sari marked it as to-read Jul 01, Karen marked it as to-read Aug 08, Lily Raff marked it as to-read Sep 04, Adam marked it as to-read Sep 11, Richard D'ambrosio marked it as to-read Dec 21, Janine DeBaise added it Feb 28, Andy added it Jun 16, Nancy marked it as to-read Jun 22, Cayla added it Sep 19, Skye marked it as to-read Jan 03, Becky marked it as to-read Jan 27, Joanne Luongo marked it as to-read Sep 27, Casey marked it as to-read Jan 11, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

About Susan Fox Rogers.


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    7. In this memoir, I explore the Hudson River from my kayak. As I encounter snapping turtles and great blue heron, visit crumbling ice houses and cement factories, you will learn about the rich natural and built history of this river. In the process I also tell my own story of family and loss. Women's Adventures in the Wild and Alaska Passages: Life on the Ice.

    I teach creative writing at Bard College--the creative essay, nature writing and a course on the Hudson.

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    I live in the village of Tivoli. Learning the river would mean seeing the sturgeon that course its depths, the snapping turtles and crabs lodged in the mud, and the osprey that plunge dramatically into the water as they hunt for food.

    If I wanted to know the river, I had to venture out. From the vantage point of her kayak, Rogers observes an abundance of wildlife and constructs surprisingly endearing portraits of often taken-for-granted species, such as the snapping turtle and sturgeon.

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    Staying keenly alert to weather patterns, she spies migrating Canada geese and monarch butterflies. She also shares information on lesser-known species: For instance, Rogers offers an especially intriguing description of the snapping turtle: Did my mother ever make turtle soup? Where did her cancer come from? Her account of the sturgeon is also particularly impressive, as Rogers explains the scientific basis for a revelation: So I was, in fact, touching something with a genetic code more ancient than the dinosaurs.