The faraway nearby

A reissue of this inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others.
Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was given three ...

A reissue of this inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others.
Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was given three boxes of ripening apricots, fruit from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to.
In this courageous, heartbreaking memoir, Solnit draws from this unexpected inheritance, weaving her own story into fairy tales and the lives of others. Encompassing the Marquis de Sade and Mary Shelley, explorers and monsters, a library of water in Iceland, and