Rebecca Solnit is an award-winning author whose distinctive voice has earned her much praise from countless publications. She now comes to Bookshop Santa Cruz to discuss her newest book, The Faraway Nearby, which uses the story of fruit to serve as a gateway for Solnit to relate intimate details about her own life, from the history of her complicated and tempestuous relationship with her mother, now suffering from memory loss, to an unexpected invitation to visit Iceland, to her own medical emergency.
Rebecca Solnit is an award-winning author whose distinctive voice has earned her much praise from countless publications. She now comes to Bookshop Santa Cruz to discuss her newest book, The Faraway Nearby, which uses the story of fruit to serve as a gateway for Solnit to relate intimate details about her own life, from the history of her complicated and tempestuous relationship with her mother, now suffering from memory loss, to an unexpected invitation to visit Iceland, to her own medical emergency.
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