Road Song: A Memoir

Kusz, who moved with her family to the unforgiving Alaska wilderness when she was six, tells how she was mauled by a sled dog, underwent reconstructive surgery and later became a teenage mother. ``Eschewing sentimentality and self-pity, Kusz paints a moving portrait of herself and her funny and heroic family in this engrossing, poetically written memoir,'' said PW. (Oct.)