17000 Feet A Story of Rebirth (Audible Audio Edition) Fox Deatry Joe Bronzi LLC Cockade and Mugwumps Publishing Books
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All seems well for Jo Packwood. After all, she's a household name in marine biology. But behind the façade, Jo is in pain; reeling from childhood issues; the lost of her father, a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam Wars; and now her mother, who is slowly being taken away by Alzheimer's.
But life soon changes when she decides to summit the Pacific Northwest's Mount Olympia, the highest, deadliest peak in North America. Cresting at 17,000 feet, it is the same mountain that claimed her father in a historic avalanche.
Accompanied by her father's younger brother, and equipped with painful memories and her parents' keepsakes, Jo sets off on a journey of emancipation.
At every elevation gain, emotions get heavier. At every dip in the oxygen level, the muddled past gets clearer. She soon discovers that in the wilderness, the elements are the least of her worries.
17000 Feet A Story of Rebirth (Audible Audio Edition) Fox Deatry Joe Bronzi LLC Cockade and Mugwumps Publishing Books
What do you do after you’ve done all you can? Jo Packwood, marine biologist at the top of her professional game, decides to climb Mt. Olympia, all 17,000 feet of it, looking for clues to her blighted childhood and facing the cold mists of her future.The book begins on the trail up the mountain. Jo is accompanied by Solomon, nicknamed Squibb, her long-lost uncle, the person most likely to help her reconnect spiritually with her father Papi, or Nelson, who abandoned her and her mother when she was a small child. Why?—she has only vague memories to rely on, most of them painting a scurrilous impression of Nelson—a decorated soldier, yes, but a reckless rake and deceiver.
Jo has recently placed her mother, increasingly isolated by Alzheimer’s, in a nursing home, evoking guilt, as well as frustration at the lack of information about the fractured family. As they ascend, Jo and Squibb spar, share, and commiserate, while he gradually, gruffly, fills in a more human, ameliorative portrait of Nelson, who disappeared, presumed dead in an avalanche, on the very mountain they are climbing.
Squibb is a reluctant mentor whose advice will reverberate for Jo at a critical moment: “Life isn’t a sprint, sugar pie. It’s about bases: you get to each for the grand slam homerun.” Loss of radio contact with a group of hikers up ahead, hallucinations possibly brought on by oxygen deprivation, and the horrifying discovery of a cache of frozen corpses (could Nelson’s be among them?) stymie the pair, with worse to come.
Fox Deatry, media executive and author ("American Witches: An American Witch in New York City"), tells Jo’s story in flashbacks as she hikes up Mt. Olympia: her discouraging visit with her deluded mother; her mentoring moment with a female cleric; an unexpected talk with one of her father’s old war buddies; and her introduction to Solomon/Squibb who will challenge her to conquer the mountain that killed her father (“Up there, you’ll experience unexpected things”).
Deatry’s descriptive prose shows practiced sophistication, and he conveys ordinary conversation believably. The plot is well constructed, and readers may appreciate the story’s close adherence to the classic concept of the hero’s journey: reluctance at the outset, fateful guidance, life-threatening peril, all leading, as the subtitle references, to rebirth, in a most surprising, cinematic conclusion.
"17,000 Feet," an adventure combining real time, powerful memory and lush imagination, offers a heroine in crisis coming to terms with her life’s big questions by taking courage and, finally, taking charge.
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17000 Feet A Story of Rebirth (Audible Audio Edition) Fox Deatry Joe Bronzi LLC Cockade and Mugwumps Publishing Books Reviews
This book is like a guide book to getting woman moving on her journey. A stepping stone to inspire all the women to set their goals in life and achieve it!!!
What do you do after you’ve done all you can? Jo Packwood, marine biologist at the top of her professional game, decides to climb Mt. Olympia, all 17,000 feet of it, looking for clues to her blighted childhood and facing the cold mists of her future.
The book begins on the trail up the mountain. Jo is accompanied by Solomon, nicknamed Squibb, her long-lost uncle, the person most likely to help her reconnect spiritually with her father Papi, or Nelson, who abandoned her and her mother when she was a small child. Why?—she has only vague memories to rely on, most of them painting a scurrilous impression of Nelson—a decorated soldier, yes, but a reckless rake and deceiver.
Jo has recently placed her mother, increasingly isolated by Alzheimer’s, in a nursing home, evoking guilt, as well as frustration at the lack of information about the fractured family. As they ascend, Jo and Squibb spar, share, and commiserate, while he gradually, gruffly, fills in a more human, ameliorative portrait of Nelson, who disappeared, presumed dead in an avalanche, on the very mountain they are climbing.
Squibb is a reluctant mentor whose advice will reverberate for Jo at a critical moment “Life isn’t a sprint, sugar pie. It’s about bases you get to each for the grand slam homerun.” Loss of radio contact with a group of hikers up ahead, hallucinations possibly brought on by oxygen deprivation, and the horrifying discovery of a cache of frozen corpses (could Nelson’s be among them?) stymie the pair, with worse to come.
Fox Deatry, media executive and author ("American Witches An American Witch in New York City"), tells Jo’s story in flashbacks as she hikes up Mt. Olympia her discouraging visit with her deluded mother; her mentoring moment with a female cleric; an unexpected talk with one of her father’s old war buddies; and her introduction to Solomon/Squibb who will challenge her to conquer the mountain that killed her father (“Up there, you’ll experience unexpected things”).
Deatry’s descriptive prose shows practiced sophistication, and he conveys ordinary conversation believably. The plot is well constructed, and readers may appreciate the story’s close adherence to the classic concept of the hero’s journey reluctance at the outset, fateful guidance, life-threatening peril, all leading, as the subtitle references, to rebirth, in a most surprising, cinematic conclusion.
"17,000 Feet," an adventure combining real time, powerful memory and lush imagination, offers a heroine in crisis coming to terms with her life’s big questions by taking courage and, finally, taking charge.
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