The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea
By Mary South
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At forty, Mary South had a beautiful home, good friends, and a successful career in book publishing. But she couldn't help feeling that she was missing something intangible but essential. So she decided to go looking for it . . . at sea. Six months later she had quit her job, sold the house, and was living aboard a forty-foot, thirty-ton steel trawler she rechristened Bossanova. Despite her total lack of experience, South set out on her maiden voyage—a fifteen-hundred-mile odyssey from Florida to Maine—with her one-man, two-dog crew. But what began as the fulfillment of an idle wish became a crash course in navigating the complicated byways of the self.
Mary South
Mary South is a graduate of Northwestern University and the MFA program in fiction at Columbia University where she was a Henfield Scholar. She has studied with Ben Marcus, Sam Lipsyte and Gordon Lish, and worked alongside Diane Williams for many years as an editor at the literary journal NOON. Her writing has appeared in the Collagist, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, the New Yorker’s ‘Book Bench’, NOON, and Words Without Borders.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just do it! Interesting account of someone who chose to follow her own path.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South mixes her adventure of learning to pilot a boat, buying a boat and then cruising up the intercoastal waterway with her personal life. I liked the boating section much more than her personal life.