A review by rebeccafromflorida
North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey by Shannon Huffman Polson

3.0

I received this book from the author and publisher, Zondervan, in exchange for a fair and honest review.

North of Hope by Shannon Huffman Polson is a memoir of a time in Shannon’s life when her world came crashing down, and she tried to get it back to normal.

Shannon’s father and stepmother, Kathy, were traveling on an Arctic hiking/river trip. A bear came onto their campsite and killed both of them.

This tragedy was too much for Shannon to deal with, and after a year of trying to do just that, she set out on her own Arctic adventure on her parents’ path.

Shannon, her adopted and troubled brother Ned, and his coworker, embark on this journey that follows the same path that her father and Kathy took. Along the way, Shannon is able to not only mourn properly and come to terms with the tragedy, but she is also able to take control of other parts of her life that were afflicted.

In addition to the main story of Shannon’s journey into the wilderness,

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