![]() ![]() ![]() It seems to encompass, in its narrow scope, all the anxieties and rewards, the political struggles and social changes of the American world. Drinking the Rain is a well-wrought paean to solitude and the delights that accrue from a simple, centered, and wonder-filled life.” “A beautifully written exploration of midlife spiritual transformation. every page thrilled me with a sense of amazed kinship and fresh discovery.” Shulman writes with such crisp clarity, skeptical wit, unegotistical honesty and ravishing sensual beauty that. “The book I loved most in the whole past year-I've been sprinkling copies of it like confetti, or a benediction, among my friends. From her bestselling novel, Memoirs of an Ex Prom Queen, to her brilliant memoir, Drinking the Rain, she has chronicled what it means to defy the expectations of family and society in order to map one’s own life. Shulman, it seems to me, is the feminist at her very best-tough and sassy, open and vulnerable, lovely and singing.” At twenty, Alix Kates Shulman wrenched herself from her middle class family and staked a claim to a fierce independence. The writing is supple, precise, rippling with grace the ideas are provocative the fierce struggle that inspired the writer, a source of deep gratitude. “A magical book that takes on the great, paradoxical challenge we all face: how to live vitally connected to the world and within the lone self at one and the same time. ![]()
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