Recollections of My Nonexistence is a marvel: a memoir that details her awakening as a feminist, an environmentalist, and a citizen of the world. At last, she uses her eagle eye to explore her own life. Solnit revives these terms with the breath of their own histories.” -Katy Waldman, The New Yorker "At the same time that describes her forays into her past, she invites us to connect pieces of her story to our own, as a measure of how far we've come and how far we have left to go." -Jenny Odell, The New York Times Book Review “Throughout her rich body of work, essayist and critic Rebecca Solnit has revealed pieces of herself in writings about the beauty of getting lost, the joys of walking both for pleasure and with purpose, and perhaps most famously, the indignity of being mansplained to. There are phrases, such as ‘women’s stories,’ ‘silencing,’ or ‘gaslighting,’ that contemporary discourse has emptied out. Solnit movingly describes her efforts to fashion ‘the self who will speak’ . Praise for Recollections of My Nonexistence : “Much more than a feminist manifesto.
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