Join us in March for the monthly meeting of the Calendars and Clocks Book Club. This month we will be reading Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit.
Our seasonal read for Women's History Month is A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit.
In 2005, Solnit, the author of Men Explain Things to Me, wrote A Field Guide to Getting Lost. The book explores the stories we use to navigate our way through the world and the places we traverse, from wilderness to cities, and how they play a role in finding ourselves or losing ourselves. Written as a series of autobiographical essays, it draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place. While deeply personal, Solnit's book is not just a memoir, since her own stories link up with everything from the captivity narratives of early American immigrants to endangered species to the use of the color blue in Renaissance paintingnot to mention encounters with tortoises, monks, punk rockers, mountains, deserts, and the movie Vertigo. The result is a distinctive, stimulating voyage of discovery that only a writer of Solnit's caliber and curiosity could produce.
If you are a fan of Anne Lamott, Diane Ackerman, and Annie Dillard, this is a book that might appeal to you. Book copies will be available on the third floor of the MLK Library upon request to staff.