25 Books You Can't Put Down
Go on, take what you need. A perfect mystery, a mouthful of poetry...;
O serves up a smorgasbord of the
summer's best reads.
By Cathleen Medwick
A Pearl in the Storm by Tori Murden McClure
304 pages; Collins
Maybe it was the snacks: Who wouldn't row alone across an ocean for the chance to eat like a teenager? Whatever it was that propelled Tori Murden McClure to the far side of the Atlantic in her homemade barge, the
American Pearl, she muscled through 12-hour days of rowing, capsizing (she rescued the M&M's), being eyeballed by a hammerhead shark and clobbered by a hurricane. In
A Pearl in the Storm (Collins), McClure tells how, on land and sea, she exuberantly bucked the tide.
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From the
July 2009 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
