Where the World Was

Rosemary Sullivan | 2023 | ISBN: 1773102818 | English | 304 pages | ePUB | 1 MB

As 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. Margaret Atwood

Incomparable writer, activist, and world traveller Rosemary Sullivan has at long last written a book about herself, about her life quest to meet the world, to celebrate its richness, to face its darkness.

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 Pinochets coup, or tracking down the people who knew Svetlana Alliluyeva for Stalins Daughter, Sullivan delivers a master class in cultural studies, human rights advocacy, and empathy for the human condition.