Drinking the Rain

A memoir of spiritualism and self-discovery from the acclaimed award-winning authorAt 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