Moving Salmon Bay

Never before published in the U.S.A, this ebook edition of Moving Salmon Bay has been released by the author to raise donations and bring awareness to the relief effort for those displaced from Typhoon Halong in October of 2025. All proceeds from this edition will go to #BethelGives to ensure the donations get directly into the hands of those in need. ]

With a diverse cast of characters, Yup'ik children, parents, elders and U.S. military personnel, Moving Salmon Bay shares the struggle of an entire Alaskan community on the verge of crashing into the Bering Sea.

This is the story of the citizens of Salmon Bay and the outsiders sent to relocate the endangered community.
Moving Salmon Bay offers an intimate glimpse in the contemporary lives of an impoverished rural Alaskan community suffering from the effects of global warming: melting permafrost, failing salmon runs, more powerful storms, and rising seas.

Readers will fall in love with the eclectic tapestry of unique characters and their struggles as the strands of each of their stories converge in a powerful story of redemption and hope.

Moving Salmon Bay is the latest from the award winning author of The Raven's Gift -- which made The Washington Post Notable List for Fiction, calling Rearden “a master of the cliffhanger.” He co-authored the best-selling memoirs Never Quit and Warrior's Creed.

A Professor of Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage, his recent honors include Rasmuson Project Awards, a UAA Chancellor’s Award, a Contributions to Alaska Literacy Award, the Alaska Literary Prize for Fiction, and a finalist in Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Screenwriting Contest. He grew up in Bethel and the villages of Akiak and Kasigluk and currently lives outside of Anchorage in the quirky mountain community of Bear Valley.

David James with the Anchorage Daily News called Rearden’s latest book of poetry, Without A Paddle, “an unsentimental but compassionate volume for anxious times,” and “the tonic many of us need right now.”