Humanity Is Trying
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Humanity Is Trying

Experiments in Living with Grief, Finding Connection, and Resisting Easy AnswersBy Jason GotsNarrated by Jason Gots
Length8h 53m

About this audiobook

“A truly beautiful, wise, raw, subtle book." —Robert MacFarlane, author of Underland My sister and I are driving south toward Graceland in her beat-up red Saturn, both in need of refuge, both running from different things. Her bumper sticker reads “Humanity Is Trying.” It’s a triple entendre, she explains: Humanity is exhausting. Humanity is struggle. Humanity is doing the best it knows how. Humanity Is Trying is several books in one. It’s a memoir about the love and the loss of a sister and a best friend. It’s the story of a series of escape attempts—cowardly, courageous, harmful, and hopeful—experiments in freedom from the stories that limit us. And it’s a record of spiritual, intellectual, and emotional growth with the help of friends, psychedelics, art, and spiritual practice. From Jason Gots, creator of the podcasts Think Again and Clever Creature, comes a philosophical love letter to the slow, messy work of building a life and living with your dreams in the face of reality.

Audiobook details

GenreBiography and Memoir, Spirituality and Religion, Self-Help
Length8 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byJason Gots
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 1, 2022
LanguageEnglish

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