The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit

The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca SolnitA reissue of this inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and othersGifts 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

verse and prose into a moving tract on the power literature can have over its reader

the king who loses his wife in a chess game and the smith who learns his skill at working brass and iron during his seven-year apprenticeship to the giant Mahon MacMahon

Traumatized and afraid

Smart is not just ticks and crosses

Kavanagh told the audience that the press was 'lily-livered'

Magic' JO BROWNING WROE

but it certainly means showing love

revolutions are born and history is made

and most importantly

This became the official narrative for decades until a family-led campaign instigated one of the most complex inquiries in history

Sedaris shops for rare taxidermy

the Bulger case