The Faraway Nearby (Hardcover)

from mykl-s

Solnit is always worth reading. This book is one of her best. I don't always understand her writing, don't always agree, often do not remember what she said, but always feel enriched by the reading. She is one of the wise ones, one of the ones in our culture worth listening to.

from gendeg

In The Faraway Nearby, there is ticker of sorts at the bottom margin of the book. It's a running marquee where Rebecca Solnit tells a continuous story about the Madagascar moth, the Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica, that drinks the "tears of sleeping birds." Solnit writes about the moth and the birds...

from flydodofly

Family reaches far beyond any border or distance, follows one everywhere by staying within. Here are a few quotes: P. 5 They were the audience for her best self, for whom she wished to be seen as, ans I was stationed backstage, where things were messier. P. 14 Difficulty is always school, though ...

from eachurch

Beautifully written meditation on the role stories play in all of our lives. Solnit weaves her ideas into complex tapestries that echo and reinforce one another in a rather spectacular way.

from GennaC

Solnit's writing is, as always, beautiful and evocative. The Faraway Nearby seems more a memoir than her other works, as she speaks with solemn wisdom about her mother's gradual withdrawal from life due to Alzheimer's, her travels to primordial Iceland, and the power and importance of storytellin...