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Learning to Float: The Journey of a Woman, a Dog and Just Enough Men

Learning to Float: The Journey of a Woman, a Dog and Just Enough Men

by Lili Wright (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

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Synopsis

Feeling single though technically dating two boyfriends, 33-year-old Lili Wright decided to take off by herself, far away from New York and the relationships crowding her life. Troubled by pressure to settle down, she hoped a coastal road trip from Maine to Florida would help answer the question What is love? Chaperoned by her ex-boyfriend's dog, Brando, Lili motored down America's East Coast to revisit the sites where she first felt love, Nantucket, where she met Rawl the hippie waiter; Greenwich, where she nearly became a wife; New Jersey, where she went with a contented drifter. Driving along the ocean-side, picking up nuggets of wisdom from the coastal folk, what she really discovered over the next 1500 miles was that the biggest lessons in love are the hardest to find.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 01 Jul 2003
ISBN 10: 0553814397
ISBN 13: 9780553814392
Book Overview: The true-story of a thirty-something who, burned out on love, embarked on a soul-searching roadtrip to adventure.

Media Reviews
Following Lili Wright as she floats from one seaside town to another is an invitation to break from our stodgy existences and experiment with adventure in our own lives. A must read, for not only the thirty-something crowd but those of us way beyond. -- Joan Anderson, author of A Year by the Sea and An Unfinished Marriage With ribald candor, Lili Wright charts the treacherous territory between the desire for emotional connection and the safety of cavalier independence. Learning to Float is an incredibly smart, brave, and honest book about a woman trying to come to her senses. --Ken Foster, author of The Kind I'm Likely to Get The joy of this book is the combination of fearless self-confrontation and the freedom of the open road. Lili Wright did what so many women dream of: She drove away from her relationships, had adventures, and lived to tell the tale in a funny, honest, and fascinating book. -Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy and The Solace of Leaving Early Romantic confusion has never been as much fun as this trip down the east coast in Lili Wright's Mazda. Learning to Float is witty, touching, endlessly charming, and as human as a face in a snapshot. -Luc Sante author of Low Life
Author Bio
Lili Wright spent ten years as a journalist in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Utah and Mexico. Her work has appeared in newspapers across the US, including the New York Times and the Baltimore Sun. A graduate of Columbia University's M.F.A. program, she currently teaches creative writing and journalism at DePauw University and lives in Greencastle, Indiana, with her husband and daughter.