Mothertrucker : finding joy on the loneliest road in America
2023
Audio Book on CD
"The true story of two women who found meaning, strength, and friendship in one of the most punishing and magnificent landscapes on earth. Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor, mentor, and writer, but in her own home, she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified of the ways her partner's behavior could escalate, Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy "Mothertrucker" Wiebe. Joy was a fifty-year-old wife and mother and the nation's only female ice road trucker, a woman who maneuvered big rigs through the Alaskan wilderness along the deadliest road in America. Joy was everything Amy wanted to be: independent, fearless, and in charge of her life in a landscape dominated by men. Invited by Joy to ride shotgun, Amy found her escape on a road that was treacherous, beautiful, and exhilarating-an adventurous ride through the Alaskan wilderness that was profoundly life changing. Mothertrucker is the story of that bracing four-hundred-mile journey navigating snow-glazed overpasses, ice-blue curves, and near plummets. It's also the stories that led them both to Alaska-an interrogation of the reality of female fear, domestic violence, and how to overcome-and an exploration into just how galvanizing friendships between women can be." -- Provided by publisher.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 DAISY audio disc (10 hours, 6 minutes) : : sound ; 12 cm
- 4 3/4 in.
- digital optical
- audio file MP3 DAISY 2.02
Target Audience Note:
- Female narrator. NLS/BPD
- Contains some strong language. NLS/BPD
Other Title: Mother trucker : finding joy on the loneliest road in America
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- For the exclusive use of persons with a print disability.
- Narrated by: Jessica Wortham.
- Digital talking book. 1 level and 28 navigation points. Digitally mastered.
- Recorded from: New York, New York : Little A, 2021.
- 2021 Amy Butcher
- 1 28 DM
LCCN: 2023995738
Control Number: 3349419
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress, 2023.Subjects:
- Abused women -- Biography.
- Abused women -- United States -- Biography.
- Alaska -- Description and travel.
- Butcher, Amy, 1987-
- Butcher, Amy, 1987- -- Travel -- Anecdotes.
- College teachers -- United States -- Biography.
- Female friendship -- Case studies.
- Truck drivers -- United States -- Biography.
- Women authors -- Anecdotes.
- Women college teachers -- Biography.
- Women college teachers -- United States -- Biography.
- Women truck drivers -- Anecdotes.
- Women truck drivers -- United States -- Biography.
Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Case studies.
- Nonfiction.
- Sound recordings.
- Talking books.
- Travel writing.
Other Authors: Wortham, Jessica, narrator.