The Beginning Comes After the End

Rebecca Solnit reminds us the power to make change is within our reach * New Scientist *
A powerful meditation on transformation in turbulent times... Solnit argues that the current turmoil signals the dying throes of patriarchy and colonialism... A rallying call for all those who yearn for a just, sustainable and flourishing society * Conversation *
Beautiful and inspiring: this book gives us the courage to face change, and to make it -- George Monbiot
Timely... As a deliberate exercise in reframing - as an open-ended invitation to consciously adopt new paradigms - The Beginning Comes After the End is very effective. Solnit is wise to focus on the nonlinear, and sometimes almost entirely invisible ways that change happens * Guardian *
It would be easy to think we inhabit a global-digital age of despair... Think again, says Rebecca Solnit... In nine deft chapters, she pushes back on the current political gloom, setting it against the achievements made since the 1960s in decolonisation, environmentalism and gender equality, as well as within her own experience of US civil, labour, LGBT+ and indigenous rights * Financial Times *
One of the most important thinkers of our times... [Solnit] asks the reader to act without guarantees, to move without knowing how the story ends. Certainty, she argues, belongs to the status quo but justice lives in the unknown * Buzz Magazine *
A rousing call urging its readers to perceive the current moment as one of dramatic, hopeful change - infused with Solnit's characteristic clarity.... As she sees it, despair is a luxury, and surrendering is a form of breaking solidarity, at odds with the theme of interconnection that runs throughout The Beginning Comes After the End * Resurgence & Ecologist *
Exhilarating, expansive, and galvanising thinking... The Beginning Comes After the End invites the reader to witness this change, shoulder to shoulder with one of the great thinkers of our age, and to share in the collective purpose and exhilaration. In that way, and in so many others, the revolution has already begun * Writers Mosaic *