The River Queen: A Memoir

The author of Nothing to Declare offers a witty and eloquent account of her midlife odyssey down the Mississippi River in a battered old houseboat, accompanied by two river rats called Tom and Jerry and a cantankerous rat terrier named Samantha Jean, describing living life like a pirate and surviving natural disasters, all the while coming to terms with the changes in her life. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.