Deep Waters: A Memoir of Loss, Alaska Adventure, and Love Rekindled

Written by Beth Ann Mathews

Narrated by Alex Picard

In this intimate story of relationship resilience, marine biologist Beth Mathews’s adventurous life as a professor and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. Jim’s radical approach to recovery clashes with Beth’s instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth and their young son in Alaska’s magnificent yet unforgiving waters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Release date: Sep 26, 2023
• ISBN: 9798868783937

Beth Ann Mathews

Beth Mathews earned her master’s degree in marine biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. As a professor at the University of Alaska Southeast, she taught courses in biology, behavioral ecology, and marine mammalogy and led research on harbor seals, Steller sea lions, and harbor porpoises. She has also studied humpback, gray, and sperm whales and—briefly—sleeper sharks, and led undergraduate research programs on board tall ships in the Gulf of Maine and from field camps in Hawaii and Alaska. She has published numerous scientific papers, and a chapter from Deep Waters placed second in the 2018 Redwood Writers Memoir Contest. Deep Waters is Mathews’s first book. She lives on an island with her husband in Puget Sound, WA.

Reviews for Deep Waters

[Linda Mooney · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved the richness of Beth's memoir. And the open, vulnerable way she shared.

Her descriptions of life in Alaska before and after the stroke had me fully engaged. Didn't want to turn off the audio.

Well done Beth!