The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole: An Aurora Levins Morales Reader [Hardcover]

The Story of What Is Broken Is Wholecollects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical thinker Aurora Levins Morales. Combining well-known excerpts from her books with out-of-print and harder to find ephemeral works and unpublished pieces, this collection weaves together stories of bodies, ecologies, Indigeneity, illness, travel, sexuality, and more. As Levins Morales reflects on her use of storytelling as a tool for change, she gathers the threads of lives and places sacrificed to greed and extraction while centering care for our individual bodyminds and those of our kin, communities, and movements. This comprehensive and essential collection provides an unprecedented window into the breadth and depth of the work of one of the most significant thinkers of our time.USThe Story of What Is Broken Is Wholecollects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical thinker Aurora Levins Morales.Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi writer, activist, poet, and visual artist. She is the author of many books, includingMedicine Stories: Essays for Radicals, also published by Duke University Press.“Aurora Levins Morales’s work changed my life, and this book is a robust gathering of that work; a generous and wild harvest of five decades of writing from our beloved madrina curandera historian. Like the Yerba Bruja plant she writes about, whose leaves can sprout even when pressed between the pages of a book, Aurora’s work both is rooted in androots usin earth; her words reach for and guide us toward greater connection, liberation, and healing. Full of story-remedies, poem-incantations, and heart-opening prose, each piece in this collection is a revolutionary call and response with plants, stones, water, history, ancestors, and life itself.”“The Story of What Is Broken Is Wholeis cause for jubilation, finally bringing togethelãw