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Journal of Alta California

The End of the World As We Know It

f the world is torn to pieces,” writes Terry Tempest Williams in her explosive and unflinching new collection, , “I want to see what story I can find in fragmentation.” Written over seven years and exploring the erosion of home, land, self, the human body, and the body politic, the book begins by asking the most difficult and pressing questions of our time: “How do we survive our grief in the midst of so many losses in the living world…? How do we hold ourselves to account over our inescapable complicity in a fossil fuel economy…? And how do we find the strength to not look away

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