![]() She describes how afraid she was initially of being attacked, and she had plenty of misgivings about the lack of creature comforts, too, having not particularly enjoyed spending time on the nubble with her husband and children. Her memoir, Drinking the Rain, is an account of how this experience offered her precious experiences that she would struggle to hold onto for the rest of her life.įirst and foremost, this was an exercise in solitude and what it could teach her. ![]() She calls it ‘the nubble’ as it stands on a rocky promontory that is completely isolated, without plumbing or electricity or a telephone. And so she made an eccentric choice, and went to live for the spring and summer months in the family beach cabin on Long Island in Maine. Her marriage was grinding to an inevitable end, and the frantic New York life she had always loved now seemed hollow and insufficient. But when her children had left home, and feminism was suffering the backlash of the 80s, it became apparent to her that things would have to change. Alix Kates Shulman was on the surface a successful and fulfilled woman a pioneer of the feminist movement in the 70s, an author of several novels as well as a mother and a wife. ![]()
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