How to Save Yourself // Sarah Polley's "Run Towards the Danger"
What happens when the moments you've spent years avoiding are the very ones you need to face?
This week, my friend Nadia returns to discuss Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory, Sarah Polley's 2022 essay collection about the transformative power of returning to the past. We start with Sarah at fifteen, playing Alice on stage with a curving spine, a newly broken heart over her mother's death, and a father whose fascination with Lewis Carroll shaped far more of her childhood than it should have.
Nadia shares her own experience losing her mother to ovarian cancer and the…
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