{"product_id":"no-straight-road-takes-you-there-essays-for-uneven-terrain","title":"No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain","description":"New York Times Bestseller\n\nIn the spirit of her bestselling book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit explores how our actions can shape the future and the liberatory possibilities of embracing uncertainty.\n\nBeginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, No Straight Road Takes You There deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, nuanced understanding, and inspiration for the challenging work ahead. In her latest essay collection, the award-winning author explores climate change, feminism, democracy, hope, and power and its abuse. Throughout she asks us to heed the stories we tell or have been told, and the ways those stories can be, or should be changed. Solnit offers a reappraisal of the value of indirect consequences, an embrace of unpredictability, slowness, and imperfection in the politics of how to change the world.\n\n“I've tried to find other ways of seeing and to prize the migratory routes ideas take,” Solnit writes in the introduction, “the way that hope is most often grounded in memory, because you can't see the future but you can understand the patterns and possibilities if you know the past.”\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0D9JNLZPL\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B0D9JNLZPL.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Solnit, Rebecca\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41509412864058,"sku":"DBV.B0D9JNLZPL.G","price":7.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/B0D9JNLZPL-0.jpg?v=1783402674","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/no-straight-road-takes-you-there-essays-for-uneven-terrain","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}