Book Club: A Pearl in the Storm

Join us for coffee, conversation, and community as we discuss Tori Murden McClure's adventurous memoir, A Pearl in the Storm. Winner of the 2010 Christopher Award, Tori Murden McClure was the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean; the first woman and American to ski to the South Pole; and the first woman and American to reach the summit of Lewis Nunatak in Antarctica. Available wherever books are sold and from the Free Library of Philadelphia.

In June 1998, Tori McClure began rowing across the Atlantic Ocean solo in a twenty-three-foot plywood boat with no motor or sail. Within days she lost all communication with shore but decided to forge ahead -- not knowing that 1998 would turn out to be the worst hurricane season on record in the North Atlantic. When she was nearly killed by a series of violent storms, Tori was forced to signal for help and head home in what felt like disgrace. But then her life changed in unexpected ways. She was hired by Muhammad Ali, who told her she did not want to be known as the woman who "almost" rowed across the Atlantic. And at thirty-five, Tori fell in love.
A Pearl in the Storm is Tori's thrilling true story of high adventure -- and of her personal quest to discover that embracing her own humanity was more important than superhuman feats.

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