Surviving the Island of Grace: Life on the Wild Edge of America
To deem this solely a memoir of her life spent as the wife of a salmon fisherman on a remote Alaska island would be missing the boat, so to speak, for Fields" powerful poetic prose deals with themes as large as the great outdoors in which she struggles to make her way and find her place. --BooklistLeslie Leyland Fields' engrossing memoir chronicles the grueling and sometimes treacherous existence she choise, which included settling on two uninhabited islands, building houses from scratch, gutting deer, and intermittently traveling around the globe. --Sports Illustrated