A review by finalgirlfall
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit

4.0

another part of the puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that’s austere at one end, in the deprivation it endorses, and fantastical in the other, since it awaits a universal utopia. joy sneaks in anyway, abundance cascades forth uninvited.

this collection seemed, to me, to meander at times. but i greatly appreciated the fact that solnit went into some detail about historical moments like occupy wall street, which i was too young at the time to understand or evaluate for myself.