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Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"

Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"

Raboteau, Emily

Paperback

Biographies GeneralEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Parenting

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 1250373409
ISBN13: 9781250373403
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: Mar 11 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.12 Depth: 8.89
Language: English

Finalist for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Finalist for the ASLE Ecocritical Book Award
One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024
Named one of The New York Times' 15 New Books to Read in March

Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau crafts a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice--and what it takes to find shelter.

Lessons for Survival is a probing series of pilgrimages from the perspective of a mother struggling to raise her children to thrive without coming undone in an era of turbulent intersecting crises.

With camera in hand, Raboteau goes in search of birds, fluttering in the air or painted on buildings, and city parks where her children may safely play while avoiding pollution, pandemics, and the police. She ventures abroad to learn from Indigenous peoples, and in her own family and community, she discovers the most intimate examples of resilience. Raboteau bears witness to the inner life of Black womanhood, motherhood, the brutalities and possibilities of cities, while celebrating the beauty and fragility of nature. This innovative work of reportage and autobiography stitches together multiple stories of protection, offering a profound sense of hope.

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