a book
Run Towards the Danger
Sarah Polley · 2022 · 272 pages
Each essay here captures a piece of Polley's life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory and the embodied reactions of children and women adapting and surviving. The guiding light is the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now. In this extraordinary book, Polley explores what it is to live in one's body, in a constant state of becoming, learning, and changing. As she was advised after a catastrophic injury to her head - if we relinquish our protective crouch and run towards the danger, then life can be reset, reshaped and lived afresh.
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Margaret Atwood
“Sarah Polley’s @realsarahpolley book is brilliant and riveting. Just saying.”↗
Mark Duplass
“This book is incredible. Thank you @realsarahpolley for the deep introspection and incredible honesty.”↗
Jacquelyn Gill
“This book also helped me reconnect with reading, something that's always been a big part of who I am, but has become hard to do in recent years. How fitting that the (last) title chapter, about concussion recovery, is about how sometimes, self-care is about doing what scares us.”↗