Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed
three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom
floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit
came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to
memory loss, could no longer tend to.
From this unexpected
inheritance came stories spun like those of Scheherazade, who used her
gifts as a storyteller to change her fate and her listener's heart. As
she looks back on the year of apricots and emergencies, Solnit weaves
her own story into fairytales and the lives of others - the Marquis de
Sade, Mary Shelley and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. She tells of unexpected
invitations and adventures, from a library of water in Iceland to the
depths of the Grand Canyon.
She tells of doctors and explorers, monsters and moths. She tells of warmth and coldness, of making art and re-making the self.
The Faraway Nearby - Rebecca Solnit
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