Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Rebecca Solnit

Jan 2017 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Tanya Eby

About this audiobook

With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Originally published in 2004, now with a new foreword and afterword, Solnit's influential book shines a light into the darkness of our time in an unforgettable new edition.

Ratings and reviews

I felt much better after listening to this audiobook. If you're an activist in practice or even just at heart, and are feeling burnt out or disillusioned, Solnit is medicine.

A critical balance to those committed to justice who often lose sight of progress & sink to cynicism & despair. Also a reminder that hope often requires despair to break thru. Keep hope in the midst of so much darkness.

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About the author

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including Call Them By Their True Names (winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark.

Tanya Eby has been a voice-over artist for over a decade. She is an Audie-nominated and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. Besides narrating, Tanya spends her time teaching creative writing classes at the collegiate level, blogging, and working on her own novels.