Essential in a world that is unraveling beneath the weight of all sorts of overlapping devastations ... For all the slipperiness of its central concept finds its footing ... The language, the landscape, is that of apocalypse, and Williams does not look away. Her intention, rather, is to remind us that none of this is conditional or reversible ... Nonetheless, and in spite of everything, Williams continues to look for grace.
An often-poetic invitation to softness and stillness in troubled times, this nature book is for readers seeking inspiration to reflect and take action.
After telling poignant and funny stories, lamenting injustice and environmental destruction, and contemplating stars, storms, flash floods, plants, stones, spiders, monarchs, time, love, and resistance, Williams assures us in this exquisite, deeply affecting, spirit-renewing inquiry that 'we can dream a new world into being.'
A mosaic of moments that are, as the subtitle suggests, simultaneously ordinary and transcendent ... These narratives are both singular and deeply entwined ... The book is both a testament to and a model of bearing witness ... The Glorians is a guide for how to live in today’s tumultuous times.
In chapters that range from brief meditations to longer narratives, Williams bears witness 'to beauty and brokenness, love and grief.' Among the most moving pieces are elegies to the dead ... An impassioned defense of interconnectedness.
Revelatory ... Evocative and richly personal, Williams’s writing seamlessly weaves together meditations on mortality, nature, and the modern world. Readers will be inspired.
