The Breaks

by Julietta Singh

£9.99


Reserve a copy

×

Reserve a copy

Reserve a copy of The Breaks for collection at Daunt Books Summertown. If you provide your email address below, we will contact you when this item is ready for collection. For delivery by post add the address to the order notes and we will be in touch to arrange payment.


    Non-Fiction

    Paperback

    9781914198007

    Published by Daunt Books

    Published September 2021

    Learning to mother at the end of the world is an infinite toggle between wanting to make you feel safe and needing you to know that the earth and its inhabitants are facing a catastrophic crisis.

    In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children’s radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh urges, we must break from the conventions we have inherited and begin to orient ourselves toward more equitable and revolutionary paths.

    The Breaks celebrates queer family-making, communal living, and Brown girlhood, complicating the stark binaries that shape contemporary US discourse. With nuance and generosity, Singh reveals the connections among the crises humanity faces – climate catastrophe, extractive capitalism, and the violent legacies of racism, patriarchy and colonialism – inviting us to move through the breaks toward a tenable future.

    The Outrun by Amy Liptrot |

    The Outrun

    Amy Liptrot

    £10.99

    Uprooting by Marchelle Farrell |

    Uprooting

    Marchelle Farrell

    £10.99

    Performance by Ruth Ivo |

    Performance

    Ruth Ivo

    £18.99

    My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss |

    My Good Bright Wolf

    Sarah Moss

    £18.99

    Straight Acting by Will Tosh |

    Straight Acting

    Will Tosh

    £22

    Wifedom by Anna Funder |

    Wifedom

    Anna Funder

    £10.99