Drinking the Rain: A Memoir
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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.
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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
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