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 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 the depths of the Grand Canyon, The Faraway Nearby is a meditation on family, empathy, and the art of storytelling from a writer of limitless talent and imagination.

About the author

Rebecca Solnit

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca (Y) Solnit, Solnit Rebecca
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781783787364
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-736-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 194 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Fiction > Narrative literature > Novel-like biographies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; RELIGION / Spirituality, Memoirs, Spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs