Run Towards the Danger
Confrontations with a Body of Memory
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Average rating4.4
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Confrontations with a Body of Memory
Ratings8
Average rating4.4
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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I really enjoyed Polley's movie Women Talking, and when I saw she had a fairly recent memoir, I thought I'd check it out. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would. A lot of it is about parenthood, which is sometimes not so interesting to me, but Polley makes it interesting, and I just like how she writes.
