Full name: Drinking the Rain: A Memoir

Author: Alix Kates Shulman Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780865476974 0865476977

A memoir of spiritualism and self-discovery from the acclaimed, award-winning author At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, author of the celebrated feminist novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, left a city life dense with political activism, family and literary community, and went to live alone on an island off the coast of Maine. On a windswept beach, in a cabin with no plumbing, power, or telephone, she found that she was learning to live all over again. In this luminous, spirited book, she charts her subsequent path as she learned not simply the joys of meditative solitude, but to integrate her new awareness into a busy, committed, even hectic mainland life. "A ten-year voyage of discovery . . . Shulman's honesty and sense of inquiry carry us with her all the way--could even, if we were willing, change our lives." --San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle Similar books: To Love What Is by Alix Kates Shulman The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner Elsewhere by Richard Russo What Remains by Carole Radziwill Let Me Finish by Roger Angell When We Were the Kennedys by Monica Wood Extreme by Sharon Osbourne Fifty Days of Solitude by Doris Grumbach My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy Goat by Brad Land The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende Seldom Disappointed by Tony Hillerman Burning the Days by James Salter My History by Antonia Fraser When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover