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erinkatherin 's review for:
Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
by Sarah Polley
I read this book in sort of magical timing: I just watched Women Talking (and have heard Polley speak about the film); I am about the same age as Polley when she wrote (and I am about the same age as Polley as she’s lived); and this book feels like a resonant companion to Hunt’s ‘Unwritten Book’.
I don’t think Polley and I have much in common, objectively. But she writes (/thinks) in ways that are resonant — maybe just to me, but maybe more universally to noticing/remembering — and then thinking about how we notice, how we remember.
Also: you could consider this a companion book for those of us reading and learning about trauma. Polley doesn’t write clinically, but she’s deeply trauma-informed — and the details she reflects on could be considered and held as richly written experience.
I loved this book. I want to recommend it and lend it out right away, but I also want to keep my copy nearby for awhile.
Recommend to: Braelynn, Amy, Jackie, Susan.
I don’t think Polley and I have much in common, objectively. But she writes (/thinks) in ways that are resonant — maybe just to me, but maybe more universally to noticing/remembering — and then thinking about how we notice, how we remember.
Also: you could consider this a companion book for those of us reading and learning about trauma. Polley doesn’t write clinically, but she’s deeply trauma-informed — and the details she reflects on could be considered and held as richly written experience.
I loved this book. I want to recommend it and lend it out right away, but I also want to keep my copy nearby for awhile.
Recommend to: Braelynn, Amy, Jackie, Susan.