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Tuesday, March 5, 6pm

Sara Hall
Drawn to the Rhythm: A Passionate Life Reclaimed

Harvard Info Center at the Holyoke Center
1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Tickets are required -- available at the store for free.

Sara Hall is the 1998 World Masters Champion in the women's single shell. She has won numerous other rowing championships and continues to row competitively. She lives near Boston. Her life seemed perfect: a wealthy husband, a big house in an affluent suburb, three healthy children. But the surface of Hall's life hid a marriage filled with sorrow and pain. One day, at age forty-two, Hall sees a lone figure rowing in the harbor, and that image becomes her holy grail.

W. W. Norton
Feb 2002, hc
$24.95

In this richly layered memoir, the author tells how her determination to master rowing a single shell gave her the courage to free herself from the dark forces of abuse in her childhood and the failure of her marriage. In lyrical prose, Hall describes the rigors of rowing, the elation of winning, the joy of total engagement in passionate enterprise, and the triumph of breaking free. Ultimately, she declares sovereignty over her life and wins a world championship gold medal. Drawn to the Rhythm is a brave and soulful book, written for all women who seek to find their strength and voice.