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The Left-Hander's Survival Guide: Living Counter-Clockwise in a Clockwise World
Hardcover
Biographies GeneralLetters & Essays
Publisher Price: $30.99
ISBN13: 9781918725001
Publisher: Phoolish Publishing
Published: Apr 1 2026
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The Left-Hander's Survival Guide explores what it means to live slightly out of alignment with a world designed for someone else.
Most everyday systems quietly assume right-handedness - from desks and scissors to handwriting, watches, and the polite way to pass someone a fork. For the roughly ten percent of us who favour the other hand, this leads to a lifetime of small adjustments: some inconvenient, some amusing, and occasionally revealing.
Through a series of personal essays, writer and designer Phil Rawlings reflects on the quiet art of adaptation. From smudged crayons in childhood classrooms to reversed guitars, Nepalese greetings, running tracks, and the stubborn elegance of fountain pens, each chapter explores how people learn to navigate systems that weren't quite built for them.
What begins as a book about left-handedness gradually becomes something broader.
It's about orientation - and how we all learn to adapt when the world is built slightly differently than we are.
Warm, reflective, and often humorous, The Left-Hander's Survival Guide is a thoughtful meditation on creativity, culture, memory, and the small adjustments that quietly shape our lives.
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