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Lifeguard: A Love Story

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As Rockaway Beach’s first female lifeguard chief, Janet Fash recounts her extraordinary career at one of the city’s liveliest and most dangerous beaches. From coming of age and falling in love to confronting the job’s most harrowing realities, she shares her unforgettable journey.

An unforgettable memoir from New York City’s first female lifeguard chief, this coming-of-age story plunges into the rough-and-tumble, sun-soaked world of Rockaway Beach in the 1970s and 1980s.

The first time I ever saw a lifeguard get horned was in the summer of 1974.

So begins the singular story of Janet Fash, the first female lifeguard chief at Rockaway Beach. Janet never expected to be a lifeguard, but when she got recruited by a friend to join the New York City lifeguarding corps, she ...