u003cbu003eFrom the author of the memoir u003ciu003eRecollections of My Nonexistenceu003c/iu003e, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy - a fitting companion to Solnit's u003ciu003eA Field Guide to Getting Lostu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003e u003cpu003eu003cbu003e A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awardu003c/bu003e u003cpu003eIn this exquisitely written book by the author of u003ciu003eA Paradise Built in Hellu003c/iu003e, Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her own stories--of her mother and her decline from memory loss, of a trip to Iceland, of an illness--Solnit revisits fairytales and entertains other stories: about arctic explorers, Che Guevara among the leper colonies, and Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein, about warmth and coldness, pain and kindness, decay and transformation, making art and making self. Woven together, these stories create a map which charts the boundaries and territories of storytelling, reframing who each of us is and how we might tell our story.
