The courageous true story of Jerri Nielsen Fitzgerald, the doctor who had to operate on and treat herself for breast cancer while serving at a research facility at the South Pole, stuck with me for years after I first heard it. It's why Julie Rowe's debut IceBound, set in that same extreme environment, caught my attention. Emilie Saunderson is a doctor, too, a new arrival to the South Pole station, which is under the perfectly capable supervision of Tom Wolinski. Carrying her own griefs...
Published on December 14, 2011 02:00