A new kind of country

A new kind of country by Gilman, Dorothy. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780385136280.

Dorothy Gilman (author of the widely read Mrs. Pollifax series) decided to leave her New York life (a seeming slow death of the spirit) and move to Nova Scotia (to rediscover herself and personal identity). Her story is the moving story of the renascence she sought and found in a starkly beautiful coastal village. She writes, "I insisted on being. On mattering, at least to myself. Without props. Cold turkey." In the new rhythms of her daily life, chatting with the lobstermen and fishermen and their families, gardening, watching the seasons and their moods, reflecting on herself and her universe, she comes at last to a turning point: "Something was different in me. Some final mysterious umbilical cord-to the earth and to all things trivial-had been cut." On the rugged seacoast of Nova Scotia, she found a new landscape of the soul. She splendidly recounts her search for inner strength, personal identity, self-esteem, peace, and it is inspirational . . . a new kind of country we all seek.