Ten Degrees of Reckoning

Ten Degrees of Reckoning: A True Story of Survival by Hester Rumberg

My Rating (Out of 5 Stars):

4 stars—I was really moved.

Amazon Description:

“In 1993, Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to sail around the world. Three years into their incredible journey, a nearby freighter altered its course by a mere ten degrees-and everything changed...

After forty-four hours in the icy water clinging to an overturned dinghy, her back broken and paralyzed below the waist, Judith miraculously survived, winding up in a small community on the New Zealand coast. Gripping, unbelievable yet true, Judith's story of courage, survival, and retribution is alternately heartrending and uplifting. It's also a story of unbreakable bonds, of shattering loss, and of one woman reborn through the strength of friendship and the profound love of strangers who became family.”

My Thoughts:

What a heartbreaking account of unlikely survival and bone crushing loss. I cannot imagine the magnitude of Hester Rumberg’s grief. You could feel the emotion in her words.

Who Should Read?

A definite recommend for the memoir crowd.