Coming Ashore: A Memoir [Paperback]

Now in trade paper

Written with the same spirit and wit as the bestsellingToo Close to the FallsandAfter the Falls,Coming Ashoreis the third and final volume of Catherine Gildiner’s memoir series. Picking up her story in the late ’60s at age 21, Cathy whisks through seven years and three countries. Whether reciting verse in the classrooms of the University of Oxford, arranging a date with Jimi Hendrix, teaching inner city kids literature, rooming with a major drug dealer, falling in love, or working in a psychiatric hospital, Cathy determinedly blazes her own trail through all the passion and uncertainty that comes with the cusp of adulthood.

Coming Ashoretransports readers to a fascinating era populated by lively characters, but most memorable of all is the singular Cathy McClure. The BackLit bonus content includes a reader’s guide, Q&A with the author, and more.

Catherine Gildiner’s childhood memoirToo Close to the Falls(1999) was aNew York Timesbestseller and on theGlobe and Mail’s bestseller list for over a year. In 2010, she published a sequel,After the Falls, also a bestseller. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.