A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival: A Memoir 20th Century Historical Fiction have been left out of

have been left out of the historical record

and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

*Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards*

From New York Times

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A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival: A Memoir 20th Century Historical Fiction have been left out ofA spirited, wise, often hilarious, profoundly moving story of one woman's efforts to survive caregiving, trauma, love, and the systems seemingly set up to fail us. Only if you are a very able swimmer trained in open water rescue should you approach drowning victims . . . Reach with a rope or branch, rowout and offer the drowning person an oar. Do not get in the water. But also: No one survives the wilderness alone. One night, Virginia Eubanks received