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Where the World Was

By (author) Rosemary Sullivan

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â€œAs a poet and writer, [Rosemary Sullivan] knows that life is lived not as theory but as practice, that . . . you can understand nothing about a place without listening to individual people and their stories.â€ â€” Margaret Atwood Incomparable writer, activist, and world traveller Rosemary Sullivan has at long last written a book about herself, about her life quest to â€œmeet the world, to celebrate its richness, to face its darkness.â€ And what a fascinating book it is! Comprised of 21 essays spanning 5 decades and multiple continents, Where the World Was offers a vivid portrait of a writer who is instinctively drawn to other cultures and places. Whether writing about a solo vacation inside the Iron Curtain, meeting the reclusive writer Elizabeth Smart in a dilapidated cottage in the English countryside, reflecting on how Chilean society responded to Pinochetâ€™s coup, or tracking down the people who knew Svetlana Alliluyeva for Stalinâ€™s Daughter, Sullivan delivers a master class in cultural studies, human rights advocacy, and empathy for the human condition.