Recollections of My Non-Existence

Recollections of My Non-Existence
REBECCA SOLNIT, VIKING, RRP$26/GRANTA, RRP£16.99
Best known for her feminist essays — most notably the 2008 breakout, “Men Explain Things to Me” — Solnit turns memoirist with this examination of her “heroic task of becoming”; her early period of self development in which she struggled to overcome both sexism and the conditioning she’d received to minimise herself to stay safe in 1980s San Francisco. Recollections . . . is more essayistic than biographical, but no less powerful for it.