LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL

This March, award-winning author and CUHF Council member, Emily Raboteau, released her latest book Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse”—a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice, and what it takes to find shelter.

From the New York Times Book Review:

Her central concern is how to parent responsibly in perilous times, when the earth is warming, the country is divided and even the grown-ups feel lost and afraid. “What does it mean to survive in the midst of protracted crises; to continually renegotiate threats against life; to cope?” she asks, building to the haunting question that drove her to write her book: “Will my children be all right when I’m gone?”

This innovative work of reportage and autobiography weaves together twenty essays with Raboteau’s own photographs of murals and other public art around New York City.

For more, see: How to Parent in a World Under Siege? the New York Times review by Tiya Miles; and Mothering Against the Apocalypse, a conversation between Emily Raboteau and author-activist, Aya de León, in Orion Magazine.