
Lessons for Survival
Mothering Against “the Apocalypse”
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2024 Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
This program is read by the author.
Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice—and what it takes to find shelter.
Lessons for Survival is a probing series of pilgrimages from the perspective of a mother struggling to raise her children to thrive without coming undone in an era of turbulent intersecting crises.
With camera in hand, Raboteau goes in search of birds, fluttering in the air or painted on buildings, and ways her children may safely play in city parks while avoiding pollution, pandemics, and the police. She ventures abroad to learn from indigenous peoples, and in her own family and community discovers the most intimate meanings of resilience. Raboteau bears witness to the inner life of Black women/motherhood, and to the brutalities and possibilities of cities, while celebrating the beauty and fragility of nature. This innovative work of reportage and autobiography will appeal to fans of the bestseller All We Can Save and Joan Didion’s The White Album alike. Lessons for Survival stitches together multiple stories of protection, offering a profound sense of hope.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.
©2023 Emily Raboteau (P)2023 Macmillan AudioReseñas de la Crítica
A Most Anticipated Book of the Year, ELLE Magazine
Named one of The New York Times “15 New Books to Read in March”
Named one of the Los Angeles Times “10 Book to Add to Your Reading List in March”
Named one of Vulture's “Best Books of the Year So Far”
Named one of Heatmap's “17 Climate Books to Read in 2024”
Named one of Electric Literature's “75 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2024”
“Interspersing punchy essays with striking photos of bird murals in her Bronx neighborhood, Raboteau chronicles her search for solace as a Black woman and mother in a world awash in political rage and threatened with climate disaster.”—The New York Times
“The question is, how do we push the politicians and corporations to figure out how to save our environment and acknowledge the economic and ecological discrepancies that still plague our culture? I suggest that every single one of them be required to read Lessons for Survival. Even for someone like me, always sympathetic to ecological concerns, it is eye-opening.”—Jane Smiley, The Washington Post
“Raboteau calls our attention to the ways in which environmental pressures will create even more social inequality between those who can afford to move, and those who are rooted by economic necessity and lack of access to alternatives.”—Los Angeles Times
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- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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Reeling from the sudden death of his teenage son, our narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged grandfather. He travels to a beach town several hours south of his home with the intention of immediately selling the land. But upon inspection, what lies beneath the dirt is much more than he can process in the throes of grief. As a biracial Black man struggling with the many facets of his identity, he’s now the owner of a former plantation passed down by the men on his white mother’s side of the family.
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Mesmerizing
- De Gina Middleton en 06-24-24
De: John Vercher
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Get the Picture
- A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
- De: Bianca Bosker
- Narrado por: Bianca Bosker
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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An award-winning journalist obsessed with obsession, Bianca Bosker’s existence was upended when she wandered into the art world—and couldn’t look away. Intrigued by artists who hyperventilate around their favorite colors and art fiends who max out credit cards to show hunks of metal they think can change the world, Bosker grew fixated on understanding why art matters and how she—or any of us—could engage with it more deeply.
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I Don’t think I Got the Picture
- De Emily J. en 03-23-24
De: Bianca Bosker
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last
- A Novel
- De: Xochitl Gonzalez
- Narrado por: Jessica Pimentel, Jonathan Gregg, Stacy Gonzalez
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn’t. By 1998 Anita’s name has been all but forgotten—certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by privileged students whose futures are already paved out for them, Raquel feels like an outsider. Students of color, like her, are the minority there, and the pressure to work twice as hard for the same opportunities is no secret.
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Thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this book.
- De Ulissa en 03-14-24
De: Xochitl Gonzalez
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Catalina
- A Novel
- De: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Narrado por: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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When Catalina is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina, least of all her own complicated, contradictory, ruthlessly probing mind. Now a senior, she faces graduation to a world that has no place for the undocumented; her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires. She infiltrates the school’s elite subcultures—internships and literary journals, posh parties and secret societies.
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Monotone delivery
- De Patricia M Hart en 11-01-24
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More, Please
- On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for ""Enough""
- De: Emma Specter
- Narrado por: Erin deWard
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
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Millions of us use restrictive diets, intermittent fasting, IV therapies, and Ozempic abuse to shrink until we are sample-size acceptable. But for the 30 million Americans who live with eating disorders, it isn’t just about less. More, Please is a chronicle of a lifelong fixation with food—its power to soothe, to comfort, to offer a fleeting escape from the outside world—as well as an examination of the ways in which compulsory thinness, diet culture, and the seductive promise of “wellness” have resulted in warping countless Americans’ relationship with healthy eating.
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Good story, unbearable narration
- De Amazon Customer en 07-10-24
De: Emma Specter
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We Were the Universe
- A Novel
- De: Kimberly King Parsons
- Narrado por: Kristen Sieh, Justis Bolding
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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The trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit’s best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for an idyllic weekend in the Montana mountains. They’ll soak in hot springs, then sneak a vape into a dive bar and drink too much, like old times. Instead, their getaway only reminds Kit of everything she’s lost lately: her wildness, her independence, and—most heartbreaking of all—her sister, Julie, who died a few years ago.
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The author’s use of detail is exceptional
- De Jane Roth en 06-17-24
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Hum
- De: Helen Phillips
- Narrado por: Ariel Blake
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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In a near-future world addled by climate change and inhabited by intelligent robots called “hums,” May loses her job to artificial intelligence. Desperate to resolve her family’s debt and secure their future for another few months, she becomes a guinea pig in an experiment that alters her face so it cannot be recognized by surveillance. Seeking reprieve from her recent hardships and her family’s addiction to their devices, May splurges on passes for her family to spend three nights respite in the Botanical Garden: a rare green refuge where forests, streams, and animals still thrive.
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Why Literary "Speculative Fiction" Doesn't Work
- De NMwritergal en 08-06-24
De: Helen Phillips
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Consent
- A Memoir
- De: Jill Ciment
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 4 h
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In this close-up look at the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s, when she was seventeen and he was forty-seven and married with two children, Ciment not only reflects on how their love ignited (who leaned in first for that kiss?) but interrogates her 1990s memoir on the subject, Half a Life. She asks herself if she told the whole truth when she wrote about their passion back then, and what truth looked like to her in the even longer-ago era of love-bead curtains when she fell in love.
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Excellent writing; overworked main question
- De Eric A. Ruthford en 06-18-24
De: Jill Ciment
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- Janet G. Zinn
- 03-24-24
A Book for Our Time
Lessons for Survival is beautifully written. The perfect balance between the personal and the political, or rather current moment as stewards of our planet and fellow travelers of the vulnerable among us, Emily Raboteau has successfully provided us with the subjects and questions we need to go forward in our world.
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