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Run Towards The Danger

Conversations With a Body of Memory

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By: Sarah Polley
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“A visceral and incisive collection of six propulsive personal essays.” (Vanity Fair)

Named a Most-Anticipated Book of 2022 by Entertainment Weekly, Lit Hub, and AV Club

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley’s Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present.

These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven’t told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to carry.

Sarah Polley’s work as an actor, screenwriter, and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity, and deep humanity. She brings all those qualities, along with her exquisite storytelling chops, to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley’s life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a “reciprocal pressure dance”.

Polley contemplates stories from her own life ranging from stage fright to high-risk childbirth to endangerment and more. After struggling with the aftermath of a concussion, Polley met a specialist who gave her wholly new advice: to recover from a traumatic injury, she had to retrain her mind to strength by charging toward the very activities that triggered her symptoms. With riveting clarity, she shows the power of applying that same advice to other areas of her life in order to find a path forward, a way through. Rather than live in a protective crouch, she had to run toward the danger.

In this extraordinary book, Polley explores what it is to live in one’s body, in a constant state of becoming, learning, and changing.©2022 Sarah Polley (P)2022 Penguin Audio Art & Literature Artists, Architects & Photographers Entertainment & Celebrities Essays Gender Studies Mental Health Awareness Social Sciences Nonfiction Celebrity
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I loved this. Her exploration of how she has processed past trauma and how it has shaped her life is inspiring. Highly recommended.

Amazing

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I loved articulating the experience of this book with the author’s excellent film The Stories We Tell. Through her words and images, the world becomes clearer and brighter - even it’s dark places.

Thorough self investigation

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Thought the story was interesting, well told and so funny in places that I laughed out loud with certain turns of phrase.
Harrowing as her life was I admit I started to flag near the end…I stopped being interested and longed for it to end.

Interesting to a point

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I could listen to her voice and insightful reflections all day. She studies her own life and influences with humble curiosity.

Insightful

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Remarkably wise, insightful and captivating. To hear Polley read her own essays aloud is the icing on the cake.

a stunning achievement

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