It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground Girl's Interest windswept sands teeming with creatures

windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire and rivers where the mythical marid sleep

you can expand your solitary practice and find your place in the world

to risk freezing to death when fuel ran out

Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident

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It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground Girl's Interest windswept sands teeming with creaturesNATIONAL BESTSELLER * 2025 BOOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE SELECTION A former Obama speechwriter moves to the Jersey Shore and learns to surf with the help of his brother in law: a tattooed, truck driving Joe Rogan superfan. David, the Yale educated writer with a fear of sharks, and Matt, the daredevil electrician with a shed full of surfboards, had never been close. But as America's crises piled up and David spiraled into existential dread, he noticed that