Praise for To See BeyondLiterary Hub “Most Anticipated Books” selection“Brave, probing. . . . These deep, thoughtful, multi-faceted essays address timely issues of human suffering and environmental devastation from a unique, ultimately hopeful perspective.” —Foreword Reviews“No book I have read in recent years is more relevant to our time, more insightful, more probing, more unsparing in its analysis or more generous of heart than To See Beyond. Anna Badkhen’s lifetime of deep reading and dangerous living has yielded these profoundly moving essays that range from Canary Islands myth to hunger stones, from ‘radical hope’ and child soldiers to micro-love and prayer beads and a lifejacket graveyard on Lesvos. Through it all, she insists on asking the common questions that unite us: How to dream, how to love, how to build a better world? If you’re looking for the answers, start with To See Beyond.” —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and Beautiful Country Burn Again“In To See Beyond, Anna Badkhen wields language like a wide-eyed, percussive magician. There is little hand-holding here, thankfully. There is an exquisite exploration of where we are, how we are, who we refuse to become, and the cost of refusing to fight. The essay as a form and humans as a species need this offering.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy and Long DivisionSelect Praise for Anna Badkhen“One of the most creative and important nonfiction writers in our era.” —James McBride“A stunning and sensitive chronicler of our collective condition.” —Imani Perry“A truly global thinker of rare and beautiful gifts.” —Ilya Kaminsky“Badkhen has an uncanny ability to address some of the most complex of modern human problems . . . and her patient consideration of what matters most in human life is unexpectedly hopeful.” —Barry Lopez“Lucid, generous, and rugged, Badkhen . . . speaks to us as a species in the early twenty-first century—where have we walked from and where are we walking.” —J. M. Ledgard“[Badkhen’s] are not light-hearted essays, but ones regularly astonished by what the world holds, at once.” —Eileen Myles“Badkhen has spent her career documenting inequities around the world. . . . What grounds us in [her] daring work is Badkhen’s incandescent poetics, an augury all its own.” —Stephanie Elizondo Griest, New York Times Book Review“We follow along as [Badkhen] leaves behind a trail of precise, glistening prose, and each time we arrive somewhere else we consider, once again, humanity’s shifting, unstable, and essential relationship with place.” —Tope Folarin, Vulture“The roaming logic of Badkhen’s essays . . . unspool themes of communion and human migration. . . . I was persistently buoyed by the tenderness [Badkhen] brings to the world and its inhabitants.” —Erica Berry, The Rumpus“Symphonic. . . . [Badkhen] is as relentless about telling a good tale as she is with revealing the scale of tragedy unfolding.” —Diane Mehta, Jewish Book Council“Brainy, poetic, global.” —Melissa Febos, Bookforum
