"A dazzling memoir that artfully renders the importance of connection across time and space." -Kirkus starred review
Shoreline, a creative-nonfiction memoir, melds tales of intergenerational wandering, the joys and challenges of raising children in multiple countries, historical and literary figures from within their cultural contexts, and an exploration of deep friendships and family relations. In bringing together all these strains, the book brings to life ways in which our own personal identity is inextricably intertwined with the people who matter to us as well as with our familial and cultural histories.
"A dazzling memoir that artfully renders the importance of connection across time and space."
Kirkus, starred review
"This vibrant book is riveting-not just brilliant, but its work is deep and beautiful, and has lived in my mind from the first moment I dipped into it: so well written, so imaginative, so very present, and so unnerving. A must-read."
Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary and The Matter with Things
"Shoreline is a gripping memoir of an extraordinary life. It is written with all the vivid detail of a novel but given added resonance by the pressure of fact behind it. The author explores the notion of identity across four continents and through several generations. How do we discover who we are? Transcend the wounds of a difficult childhood? Make sense of the loss of loved ones? Deal with the inherited burden of a horror like the Holocaust? Shira Nayman reflects on these issues unflinchingly and with penetrating insight in a moving account of how she has made sense of a difficult inheritance and reached a place of understanding from which to go forward."
Charles Palliser, author of The Quincunx and Sufferance
