If Not for This

After meeting at a boatman's bash on the Snake River, river runners Maddy and Dalt embark on a lifelong love affair. They marry on the banks of the Buffalo Fork, sure they'll live there the rest of their days. Forced by the economics of tourism to leave Wyoming, they start a new adventure, opening their own river business in Ashland, Oregon: Halfmoon Whitewater. They prosper there, leading rafting trips and guiding fishermen into the wilds of Mongolia and Russia. But when Maddy, laid low by dizzy spells, with a mono that isn't quite mono, both discovers she is pregnant and is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, they realize their adventure is just beginning. Navigating hazards that dwarf any of the rapids they've faced together, Maddy narrates her life with Dalt the way she lives it: undaunted, courageous, in the present tense. Driven by her irresistible voice, full of wit and humor and defiance, If Not For This is a love story like no other.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 08/05/2014
ISBN: 9781597095389
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d
Award: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award - Winner

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2014
Library Journal 06/01/2014 pg. 94
Publishers Weekly 06/30/2014
Shelf Awareness 08/08/2014