Simply put, hope is not naive optimism but rather the ability to see the possibilities in the uncertainties that surround us and the capacity to act accordingly.Ĭiting recent events, famous people, and writers of old, Rebecca Solnit builds her case as to why hope is so relevant and important to our modern world. In each of her twenty-one short chapters, she focuses on a different aspect of hope and how we should nurture it. Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act. Diverging from the common conceptions of hope, this book presents a stronger, newer perspective: Her rousing book encourages readers to keep sight of a brighter future, within reason. The author carefully analyzes the past and the present to demonstrate how hope is intertwined with action.

She defines hope, not as optimism, but as the acknowledgment of possibilities for a better world. Marshmallow’s Summary (with Spoilers): Rebecca Solnit goes over several depressing events of the recent years with a new perspective. Marshmallow’s Quick Take: If you like nonfiction books that discuss current events, or if you are worried about the future because of said current events, then this might be the book for you. Marshmallow reviews Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit. But this week she decided to write about Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, first written in 2004 and then republished with a new foreword and an afterword in 2016. Marshmallow enjoys reading fiction and most often reviews works of fiction for our blog.

Hope in the dark book review