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REBECCA SOLNIT is author of, among other books, Call Them By Their True Names, The Mother of All Questions, Men Explain Things to Me, Wanderlust, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built in Hell. A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.Solnit taught me that activism is poetic. Her prose as clear and galvanising as it is beautiful. In 'Recollections of my Non-Existence' she takes us through the dreams and dark corners of her life. Each passage a revelation, both idiosyncratic and universal, as she examines the everyday violence of inhabiting a female body, and the everyday erasure that occurs in our society. Unflinching she lights the way, holding up her experience, her insight, that others might find her, and find hope
- Florence Welch,
Spare, yet lyrical, Solnit's memoir is a powerful portrait of the artist as a young woman. She stumbles, she suffers, she wanders and deviates. She works and works some more. Somehow she arrives at a singular voice that is heard by millions, including the mansplainers she so precisely named. Solnit's voice is 'audible, credible, and consequential'. It is also brilliant and shapes the ways in which women today see, all the while enabling them to speak out
- Lisa Appignanesi,
A writer of startling freshness and precision
New York Times
Solnit is a resource [...] of hope and guidance in turbulent times
Newsweek
Rebecca Solnit's opposition to injustice in its many forms, and her relentless inquiry as a writer and reporter into a great range of issues - racial injustice, nuclear weapons, indigenous rights, male hegemony- have defined the outrage and politics of much of her generation. In Recollections of My Nonexistence she draws all these potent metaphors for inequity together into a moral stance that transcends the particulars of all her topics. This is a remarkable book - smart, brave, edgy, insightful, and authentic
- Barry Lopez,
Beautifully written... Brilliant
Psychologies
A deeply-considered exploration of consciousness and the mutability of selfhood... generous in the breadth of its ideas, and generative in the clarity of its arguments
Irish Times
Solnit's book has some great moments of observation and some very fine writing... brilliant ... terrific
Guardian
A valuable glimpse into the grit and courage that enabled [Solnit] to keep telling sidelined stories when the forces opposing her seemed monolithic
Observer
An inspiration to women
Financial Times
Recollections of my Non-Existence is both the story of where we've been and a celebration of how far we've come
Telegraph
Tangential, changeable, deeply feminist, and imbued with a sense of hope that undercuts her wild anger at the world's injustices... a wonderful book
Arts Desk
Solnit produces great life writing... Recollections of My Non-Existence is hopeful, as is characteristic of Solnit's feminism... I started this book thinking I'd like to meet Solnit; halfway through I imagined buying her memoir for each of my students. I finished by wanting to nail her book to the door of parliament... this memoir is as much an achievement as the rest of her career has been thus far
Literary Review
The Rebecca Solnit book I have been waiting for... [Solnit's] writes with the clarity of a seer and the scope of a visionary. We are all the richer for her dazzling ability to conjure her existence into being
Spectator
A book of gorgeous revelation
In the Moment
A wonderful memoir of nostalgia, lost places, and (most of all) what it means to become a "woman-with-a-voice". It's so expertly crafted that all you speed readers who skipped through it would miss out on most of the pleasure
- Mary Beard, TLS
A resonant and moving portrait of how challenging life can be in the female body
- Best 100 Books of the Year, Time Magazine