Sat, Oct 12
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Jenn Shapland, Thin Skin & Sasha West, How to Abandon Ship
Jenn Shapland's Thin Skin is one of Time's 100 must-read books of the year. "In How to Abandon Ship, Sasha West emerges like a modern Cassandra, one who doesn’t simply tell us of what is to come, but one who teaches us, “To bite. To keen. To howl.” "--Tomás Q. Morín
Date, Time & Location
Oct 12, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, please register for Zoom here.
Order Thin Skin: Essays (paperback, $19) from CW online here and How To Abandon Ship (paperback, $17.95) online here, or call the store to order (505) 988-4226
About Thin Skin
For Jenn Shapland, the barrier between herself and the world is porous; she was even diagnosed with extreme dermatologic sensitivity—thin skin.
Recognizing how deeply vulnerable we all are to our surroundings, she becomes aware of the impacts our tiniest choices have on people, places, and species far away. She can't stop seeing the ways we are enmeshed and entangled with everyone else on the planet. Despite our attempts to cordon ourselves off from risk, our boundaries are permeable.
Weaving together historical research, interviews, and her everyday life in New Mexico, Shapland probes the lines between self and work, human and animal, need and…