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title: "The Faraway Nearby"
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# The Faraway Nearby

**Brand:** rebecca solnit
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## Customer Reviews

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    Idiosyncratic & Universal
  

*by T***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 27, 2022*

This is a beautiful book, seemingly inspired by the loss of her mother, where Ms. Solnit takes on an idiosyncratic journey through disintegration and hints of rebirth.  Framed by a pile of apricots from her mother’s tree, we travel through Ms. Solnit’s present and her reflections on everything from history to the writing she creates and the literature that inspires her.I was already taken by this book when I saw the table of contents and wondered how she would make use of the symmetry of the chapters.  I was immediately brought into the quirkiness of her style when I started reading the passage that runs in a single line along the bottom of the pages.  It seems to be her way: a subtle logic to her stories that has a personality unique to herself.Ultimately, I found this book to be many things.  It is informative and moving, personal and universal, captivating and inducing of intellectual challenge.  I have come very much to enjoy Ms. Solnit’s style and look forward to reading more of her.

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    Saved by others' stories
  

*by R***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 2, 2014*

Rebecca Solnit opens The Faraway Nearby with 100 pounds of apricots, collected from her ailing mother's tree, ripening and rotting on Solnit's floor, a bequest and a burden as if from a fairy tale. The fruit was a story, she explains, and also "an invitation to examine the business of making and changing stories." So Solnit tells her own story. And shows how she escaped it by entering the wider world of others' stories, and how she changed her story as she better understood her unhappy mother and their bad relationship.A key to this unusual book--which has the air of a classic about it--is the story in The Thousand and One Nights of the sultan who, cuckholded by his queen, decides to sleep with a new virgin every night and kill her in the morning. A woman, Scheherazade, volunteers to end the slaughter by telling the jealous man endless stories, distracting him with suspense so that he spares her life; in time she bears three sons, and he becomes less murderous. "Those ex-virgins who died were inside the sultan's story," Solnit writes. "Scheherazade, like a working-class hero, seized control of the means of production and talked her way out."By the same token, there are almost too many stories in The Faraway Nearby to list. Solnit has said she's a collector of stray bits, her method bricolage. Using that clue illuminates her apparent working method: there's been a patient melding, with brief transitions for topic shifts. This makes for more demanding reading--less warning of new topics and less time for a reader's preparation. You're immersed a new story before you know it. I love this book, but at times I struggled to stay on track; some readers will get lost and bored and close the book.  I much prefer the way Virginia Woolf, one of Solnit's influences here, grounds the reader in time and space or in the movement of her mind in A Room of One's Own.Toward the end, Solnit returns to her mother and to her mother's end, to those apricots. Pared to its bones, she tells us, this book is the history of an emergency--her mother's traumatic decline--and of the stories that kept Solnit company then. But she tells us she'll resist the essayist's "temptation of a neat ending," and indeed she does. Questions flood in, a ripple effect of the book; her method, which meditates on meaning, doesn't always presume to supply it.

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    Solnit’s ability to connect seemingly random and disparate elements amazed me, as did her insight
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 3, 2018*

I don’t usually read memoirs. At least, I haven’t in the past. This is my second one in a month, and I have to say I may be changing my mind. Though I have to say that this isn’t exactly a memoir. It is, but not really. When you read it, you’ll see what I mean.From stories of her mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s to her own brush with cancer, the author weaves an intimate narrative about personal trauma and family relationships in such a way that we see the beauty amid the chaos, the poetry in the pain. Solnit’s ability to connect seemingly random and disparate elements amazed me, as did her insight. She seems to see right to the heart of things, touching the delicate pulse of truth beneath layers of superfluous camouflage with surprising power and sensitivity. More than once I would have sworn she was speaking directly to me; her words were that apropos to my own experience, that synchronistic to my own journey. Each time I felt her at my shoulder and had to put the book down for a while, so that I might fully absorb the impact of her words.Throughout the book, Solnit demonstrates the importance in our lives of the stories we tell ourselves. With a true sense of artistry, she lays words like breadcrumbs that lead us toward understanding. Gently, she challenges us as readers to examine our own stories, to recognize their power to nurture love or fear, forgiveness or spite, empathy or anger, recovery or suffering. Her words coax us to believe that perhaps, if we are willing to see our stories for what they are and what they bring to our worlds, we can make new stories that bridge the extremes and lead to healing.This is not an easy read. Its subject matter is far too thought-provoking. The Faraway Nearby is more a book to savor slowly, with a cup of tea or a glass of wine, perhaps on a quiet balcony or in a comfortable nook. And when you’ve finished it and put it down, keep it handy. It reveals itself in layers as you go, and will likely offer different insights with each pass, so you’ll want to read it again and again.

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