Rockaway: Surfing Headlong into a New Life

The inspirational story of one woman learning to surf and creating a new life in gritty, eccentric Rockaway Beach

Unmoored by a failed marriage and disconnected from her high-octane life in the city, Diane Cardwell finds herself staring at a small group of surfers coasting through mellow waves toward shore-and senses something shift. Rockaway is the riveting, joyful story of one woman's reinvention-beginning with Cardwell taking the A Train to Rockaway, a neglected spit of land dangling off ...