Gildiner’s improbable adventures and her prose, which crackles with humor and intellect, are more than enough to delight her readers, but Coming Ashore also holds historical interest as a first-hand account of a young woman reaching maturity during the feminist awakening of the late ’60s and early ’70s.įrom the very first page, Cathy McClure Gildiner seems strangely familiar. She announces her arrival as a student at Oxford by sailing headlong through the glass window of the post office on her bicycle, unable to locate the “English brakes.” Readers familiar with Gildiner’s first two memoirs, Too Close to the Falls and After the Falls, which chronicle her rambunctious childhood in upstate New York, will be happy to reunite with the spirited young woman lying bloodied-yet somehow unharmed-on the mailroom floor.Ĭoming Ashore follows Gildiner into her twenties as she studies poetry at Oxford, teaches English in Cleveland, and starts graduate school in Toronto, where she meets her husband.
Catherine Gildiner knows how to make an entrance.
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