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“Keeping the Feast is a triumph of will and spirit.”
—Abigail Thomas, author of the bestselling memoir A Three Dog Life
For the first 18 years of my life, I never strayed far from the Connecticut coast; ever since, it seems I’ve been making up for lost time. I grew up along Long Island Sound, and many summers, thanks to a well-off, lonely cousin of my mother’s, we lived in old-fashioned cottages directly on the beach. We occasionally went camping, in a smelly, canvas tent, not far from the sea in Rhode Island, and one rainy week, we camped on Cape Cod. Otherwise we stayed remarkably close to home; I never crossed the Hudson