When a young girl goes missing in the remote wilderness of the western Oregon Cascades, her disappearance sets off a chain of events that reveal a long history of violence, abuse of power, and environmental precarity. This is a story of how four women make sense of the everyday extraordinary traumas that contour their lives, and how their individual strengths come together to sing a fierce hymn of survival.
"The literary fabric of M. Jackson . . . creates a powerful narrative of humanity."
Henry Pollack, author of A World Without Ice and a winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
"A haunting, gritty, incisive portrayal of trauma and empathy, M Jackson's The Ice Sings Back may shatter you, but in such a way that you don't ever wish to be reconstituted. It's a powerful fiction debut, alive with vivid landscape imagery and electric dialogue between fascinating, troubled people."
Nathaniel Ian Miller, author of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
