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.
