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Drinking the Rain

A Memoir

North Point Press, July 2004
ISBN: 978-0-86547-697-4, ISBN10: 0-86547-697-7,
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 256 pages,
Trade Paperback, $14.00

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Alix Kates Shulman

Alix Kates Shulman is the author of eleven books, including Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, and three other novels, two memoirs, two books on the anarchist Emma Goldman, and three children's books. She divides her time between New York City and Maine.

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Excerpt

Drinking the Rain
PART ONEThe IslandONE

THE tide is low, leaving a swath of damp, hard-packed sand as good as a dirt road for rolling my shopping cart along. Otherwise, the cartwheels would sink into the fine sand above the tide line or catch in the wrack, that dense tangle of seaweed, driftwood, shells, and debris that fringes the beach.

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