Joan Anderson
2000

The autobiographical report of a woman who has married an extremely rational and un-nurturing man and has raised a family with him, but now feels the relationship is empty and the next step is obscured by her lack of knowledge of herself. She has the extreme good fortune to have a cottage on Cape Cod, and the guts to decide to retreat there for a year to work things out for herself, by herself. She finds herself unexpectedly in the position of needing to work, and the experience of working in a fish market and digging clams, new relationships with local people, and her time alone tracking herself lead to a fruitful understanding. This could be good if you are at a decision point about what do about a relationship you are in.