![]() I was always looking to see what was going wrong rather than just feeling this superabundance of apricots. ![]() "Every time I looked at it," Solnit says, "there were a few more going bad. ![]() Solnit tells weekends on All Things Considered host Jackie Lyden about receiving a "fairy-tale" gift from her mother: 100 pounds of apricots. ![]() "We think we tell stories," she says, "but often stories tell us." By the time A Paradise Built in Hell was published, Solnit had already established herself as a successful author and won critics’ approval for her books, including River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West and Wanderlust: A. She weaves in being a writer in residence in Iceland and examines the stories of Scheherazade and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Yet Rebecca Solnit sees human possibilities inherent in the certainty of big trouble. In her book, Solnit explores her tempestuous relationship with her mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's before her death. "Stories are compasses and architecture we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of the world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice." Rebecca Solnit begins her new memoir, The Faraway Nearby, with a question: "What's your story?" ![]() Rebecca Solnit won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her 2004 book River of Shadows. ![]()
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