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Humanity Is Trying: Experiments in Living with Grief, Finding Connection, and Resisting Easy Answers

Humanity Is Trying: Experiments in Living with Grief, Finding Connection, and Resisting Easy Answers

Gots, Jason

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ISBN10: 1335652949
ISBN13: 9781335652942
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: Mar 1 2022
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
A truly beautiful, wise, raw, subtle book. --Robert MacFarlane, author of Underland

My sister and I are driving south toward Graceland in her beat-up red Saturn, both in need of refuge, both running from different things. Her bumper sticker reads Humanity Is Trying. It's a triple entendre, she explains: Humanity is exhausting. Humanity is struggle. Humanity is doing the best it knows how.

Humanity Is Trying is several books in one. It's a memoir about the love and the loss of a sister and a best friend. It's the story of a series of escape attempts--cowardly, courageous, harmful, and hopeful--experiments in freedom from the stories that limit us. And it's a record of spiritual, intellectual, and emotional growth with the help of friends, psychedelics, art, and spiritual practice.

From Jason Gots, creator of the podcasts Think Again and Clever Creature, comes a philosophical love letter to the slow, messy work of building a life and living with your dreams in the face of reality.

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