THIS MUCH COUNTRY

Kristin Knight Pace's emotions are unmistakably present in her voice throughout this memoir of moving from Texas as a teenager to Montana and then Alaska, getting divorced and finding true love, learning how to run sled dogs, and competing in the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod. Pace seems to relive all those feelings and experiences as she delivers her own words. Crystal clear are her love for her husband and affection for her sled dogs, gratitude for friends who come to the rescue when cars get stuck or water hoses break in the cold, and fury when a drunk deliberately kills a mushing dog during a race. When Pace describes the loss of her beloved Moose--the giant dog that inspired the name of her kennel--it sounds as if she actually sheds tears in the studio. A.B. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2019]