![]() I struggled thru this book at times and came away with mixed feelings. But the fear that I carried around was monumental and facing it was both exhilarating and humbling.Īlix Kates Shulman's memoir of living on a remote island by herself and meeting that fear head-on meant so much to me that I wrote her a letter (a physical one on paper, I believe) and she sent me back a card.Īn inspiring and honest book and a gracious and generous author. Almost nothing happened to me that year that I had been warned about - most of my problems on the road were of my own creation (side note: never try to peel a grapefruit while driving on the interstate). That year I drove south to Mexico and north to Idaho and then back home from Arizona to Boston - all three trips on my own (and very much over my father's objections) - and I was keenly aware of everything I had been taught to fear about being a woman alone in a strange place. When I read this book I was twenty years old and it had never occurred to me before but I realized it was quite true that I might live my whole life without ever being really on my own. ![]()
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