At 50, Alix Shulman decides to live remotely on a Maine Island while working on a book. I picked this book up on our recent trip east and enjoyed reading it. The book encompasses ten years of her life. I was amazed at how self sufficient she became in a short period of time. She learns to eat what is available near her small electricity/plumbing free cabin. I loved the way she began the book with this quote by Franz Kafka: " You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." The quote was part of the reason I bought the book while on vacation and the memoir was equally as good.
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