(Paperback)

But when the sport exploded into the mainstream and surfing changed for ever, Dora's paradise was lost.

Outraged at gridlocked swells and a scene that had grown ever more commodified, Dora eventually fled Malibu, seeking empty waves - and anonymity - beyond America.

(Paperback)

Set against the backdrop of her own relationship, Dr. Engler, a sex therapist, starts to understand about the contradictory impulses of her mostly male patients, which also forces her to broaden her own notions about love.