{"product_id":"9780735242883","title":"Run Towards the Danger","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE 2022 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE * \u003c\/i\u003eA\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice * Named a Most-Anticipated Book of 2022 by \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly, Lit Hub,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAV Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A visceral and incisive collection of six propulsive personal essays.” —\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] roving, psychologically probing memoir in essays . . . On the page, Polley turns out to be as brave, funny, and unself-serious as she is on the screen.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Academy Award-nominated director of \u003ci\u003eWomen Talking\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRun Towards the Danger\u003c\/i\u003e explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eSarah Polley’s work as an actor, screenwriter, and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity, and deep humanity. She brings all of 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 you are now but were not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a “reciprocal pressure dance.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolley 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 towards 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 towards the danger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this extraordinary book, Sarah Polley explores what it is to live in one’s body, in a constant state of becoming, learning, and changing.","brand":"Polley, Sarah","offers":[{"title":"Hardback (Memoir\/Biography)","offer_id":47794347639008,"sku":null,"price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback (Memoir)","offer_id":50133153251552,"sku":null,"price":13.25,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e2c410ef-de27-40bd-a567-ec33723a580f.jpg?v=1758983662","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9780735242883","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}