Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Burdens by Water: An Unintended Memoir

Burdens by Water: An Unintended Memoir

Rifkin, Alan

Paperback

Letters & EssaysWriting InstructionReligion General

ISBN10: 1941932045
ISBN13: 9781941932049
Publisher: Brown Paper Press
Published: Feb 23 2016
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In a series of strangely resilient personal adventures--often beginning with breakups, and fueled by a sense of invincible longing--essayist Alan Rifkin flings himself at the last vestiges of the Southern California Dream. He chases summer with a pool man, lives with monks in a Santa Barbara monastery, joins a dysfunctional Los Angeles writing club, communes with wild dolphins, traces the steps of Otzi the Iceman, emulates a Bible-based marriage, and confronts his mother's last season in his beloved San Fernando Valley, in each case wrestling with mysteries of heaven and earth. By the time he looks up, he has waded deep into the complications of later life--compromised love, family tragedy, and what it might mean to be a grownup in the 21st century West.

Also in

Letters & Essays

View All