Risk: A Life Saved by the River

Sue Norman shares her journey as a pioneer in international whitewater kayaking and rafting competition. Alternating between two time periods, we learn how outdoor adventure helped the author cope with the trauma of her mother’s MS diagnosis, family separation, and poverty.

As an adult, Sue adopted her nephew after his early years were wrought with parental addiction and mental illness. Does Sue have what it takes to parent a child considered to be at risk?