Recollections of My Nonexistence Classic Praised by The New Yorker

Praised by The New Yorker

Apparently she's his girlfriend Piper

must now seek the Dream Sword

Stripped of any money or material possessions

Thammavongsa is a master at homing in on moments like this -- moments of exposure

Recollections of My Nonexistence Classic Praised by The New YorkerIn Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself. She