The Nude Beach Notebook - Scot, Barbara J.
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In this engaging new memoir, Barbara J. Scot explores her reluctance and longing to reconnect with a much-loved brother, lost to alcoholism for thirty years. Scot uses long, meditative walks on the "clothing optional” beach of the idyllic Sauvie Island near Portland, Oregon, to explore family responsibility, time's passage, and faith. She weaves entries from her notebook with the main narrative, tracing her search for her brother, her close friendship with a fellow writer, and daily life.

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In this engaging new memoir, Barbara J. Scot explores her reluctance and longing to reconnect with a much-loved brother, lost to alcoholism for thirty years. Scot uses long, meditative walks on the "clothing optional” beach of the idyllic Sauvie Island near Portland, Oregon, to explore family responsibility, time's passage, and faith. She weaves entries from her notebook with the main narrative, tracing her search for her brother, her close friendship with a fellow writer, and daily life.
Autorenporträt
Barbara J. Scot is the author of The Violet Shyness of their Eyes: Notes from Nepal (winner of the PNBA Book Award); Prairie Reunion (New York Times Notable Book of the Year); The Stations of Still Creek; and Child of Steens Mountain (with Eileen McVicker, OSU Press). She taught public school for twenty-six years and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal. Scot lives with her husband in a houseboat on Sauvie Island, near Portland, Oregon.