Shoreline

"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.

Shira Nayman was born in South Africa, grew up in Australia, and has lived in Israel, Mexico, France, and Colombia. She now makes her home in Brooklyn, NY, and Highland Park, NJ. Nayman has a Psy.D. from Rutgers University (Clinical Psychology), and completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in psychology at New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center in Westchester. The recipient of three year-long grants from the Australia Council for the Arts Literary Board, Nayman also received the Cape Branch Award for Emerging Woman writer and a Hadassah Brandeis Institute grant for fiction writing. She has taught psychology, creative writing, literature and narrative medicine at Barnard College, Rutgers University, and Columbia University. Nayman has also built a career as a strategic marketing consultant, working with Fortune 100 companies and national political campaigns to develop positioning strategy for major brands, product launches, and political candidates. Nayman continues to divide her working life between consulting and writing fiction. She has published fiction and non-fiction in a variety of literary journals and newspapers. Her previous acclaimed novels include A Mind of Winter, The Listener, Awake in the Dark, and River.