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Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea
Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea
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At forty-two, Mary South had a pleasant life: a good (if unfulfilling) job, a nice house, a handful of close friends, a couple of much-loved Jack Russell terriers. Something was missing, though. Shuttling between the meeting room and her station at home in front of the TV, she couldn't help feeling that she was missing something intangible but essential. So she decided to go looking for it where so many have before: at sea.
Six months later, South had quit the job, sold the house, packed up her things, and relocated her life onto the Bossa Nova, a repurposed fishing trawler she intended to pilot -- despite her almost total lack of sea-going experience -- between the far outposts of the eastern United States. Taking along the dogs and her sailing buddy, John (her odd-couple opposite in politics, lifestyle, attitudes toward women, and everything else except the love of the open ocean), she set off from Florida to New York State. What began as the fulfillment of an idle wish became a crash course in navigating the byways of the self.
The Cure for Anything traces South's voyage, from the charming Americana of Florida's Intracoastal Waterway out into the open waters of the Atlantic. As the trip progresses, South grapples with the ghosts of family and loves lost, and takes a truer reckoning of what's really involved in casting off an old life and making a new one.
Six months later, South had quit the job, sold the house, packed up her things, and relocated her life onto the Bossa Nova, a repurposed fishing trawler she intended to pilot -- despite her almost total lack of sea-going experience -- between the far outposts of the eastern United States. Taking along the dogs and her sailing buddy, John (her odd-couple opposite in politics, lifestyle, attitudes toward women, and everything else except the love of the open ocean), she set off from Florida to New York State. What began as the fulfillment of an idle wish became a crash course in navigating the byways of the self.
The Cure for Anything traces South's voyage, from the charming Americana of Florida's Intracoastal Waterway out into the open waters of the Atlantic. As the trip progresses, South grapples with the ghosts of family and loves lost, and takes a truer reckoning of what's really involved in casting off an old life and making a new one.
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