Sara Loewen

Gaining Daylight, Sara Loewen's recently published debut book is a collection of essays in the memoir style about life in Kodiak. Sara's husband Peter is a fisherman, and every summer they leave Kodiak City and spend the fishing season on Amook Island, in Uyak bay, on the southwestern part of Kodiak Island. Sara's book tells of her life in these two places, raising two young sons, and experiencing the kind of return to a subsistence way of life that many of us will never know.

Sara's writing is intelligent, clear, and inviting. Her book is equal parts personal history, history of Kodiak, meditation, reflection, and paean to Home and Family. I'm certainly biased, because I grew up in Kodiak, and went to school with Sara, but I think this is a wonderful book, and I recommend it highly.… (mais)