This collection begins with the speaker, one week married, stepping aboard the Alaska State Ferry Malaspina as she embarks on her new life in the North Country. The poems, loosely narrative, follow her struggle to navigate the new country of marriage, and to speak the new language of self, in a land of reinvention. Like a shapeshifting salmon reaching its birth stream, the speaker reimages herself, to make a new place as familiar as home. "Her narrative reflects on how every aspect of her life changed, and how she learned to love it." The Midwest Book Review.