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A Recipe for More by Sara Elise

$18.00

A Recipe for More is a quest to examine the ingredients of our lives, those essential components that make up our days. Have we chosen rest, breath, movement, agency, visibility, play, and pleasure? Or are we trapped in the numbing and violent pattern of self-inflicted suffering? Do we celebrate the unique and precious wiring of our brains? Are our relationships a garden of ever-growing and evolving roots? Do we nourish our bodies with what it requires to sense and receive? Are we liberated, awakened, and alive? In the tradition of Adrienne Maree Brown and Sonya Renee Taylor, A Recipe for More is a radical argument for dismantling the systems that oppress us. But it begins with the individual, and the simple recipe of our every day. 

Groundbreaking, persuasive, inclusive, and warm, A Recipe for More brings the ingredients of an abundant life to all readers so that we might honor ourselves, deepen our communities, and finally be present in each miraculous and life-giving singular moment.

With contributions by Fariha Róisín, Tourmaline, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Ryann Holmes (bklyn boihood), Naima Green, J Wortham, and more.

Please note: This listing is for a paperback copy.

A Recipe for More is a quest to examine the ingredients of our lives, those essential components that make up our days. Have we chosen rest, breath, movement, agency, visibility, play, and pleasure? Or are we trapped in the numbing and violent pattern of self-inflicted suffering? Do we celebrate the unique and precious wiring of our brains? Are our relationships a garden of ever-growing and evolving roots? Do we nourish our bodies with what it requires to sense and receive? Are we liberated, awakened, and alive? In the tradition of Adrienne Maree Brown and Sonya Renee Taylor, A Recipe for More is a radical argument for dismantling the systems that oppress us. But it begins with the individual, and the simple recipe of our every day. 

Groundbreaking, persuasive, inclusive, and warm, A Recipe for More brings the ingredients of an abundant life to all readers so that we might honor ourselves, deepen our communities, and finally be present in each miraculous and life-giving singular moment.

With contributions by Fariha Róisín, Tourmaline, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Ryann Holmes (bklyn boihood), Naima Green, J Wortham, and more.

Please note: This listing is for a paperback copy.

“A Recipe for More is exactly what it claims to be— a beautiful, carefully woven prayer pushing us closer to our more-ness, to the ways that make each one of us uniquely us. Sara Elise mines the joys and difficulties of her own life to illuminate a path towards authenticity, one that lights the way for each of us who dare listen. ”

— Fatimah Asghar, author of When We Were Sisters, winner of the Carol Shields Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award

“Sara Elise has much to share about leaning into the sensate pleasures of aliveness, the fecund richness of possibility that blooms when mapping out desire paths towards a Black queer futurity that prioritizes self-worth, collectivity, non-hierarchical mindsets, access needs, care, healing and ecological harmony. She does all of this with grace and transparency, seeding the ground for anyone who wishes to take inspiration and turn it into action. This is more than a book: It’s a way of being.”

—  J. Wortham, culture writer for the New York Times Magazine and co-host of the New York Times podcast, Still Processing

“Deeply honest, compassionate, and wise...A Recipe for More is a generous book about breaking cycles of suffering, but also, choosing pleasure, offering kindness to self, cultivating an electric network of friendships, and embracing this sweet life. I treasured every page.”

— Janelle Monáe, singer, actor, artist, and New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Librarian

“I rarely feel this way about a book but A Recipe For More brings me to new places every single time I encounter it, it’s a book that is both revelatory and grounding. There’s an assurance of revolutionary possibility as we read Sara Elise because her clarity, fortitude and vision guide us to those places. This book reminds me utopic imagination is imperative in the creation of the new world and it shows us how to get there with slowness and care. I’m so glad it exists!”

— Fariha Róisín, author of Who Is Wellness For, Survival Takes A Wild Imagination and How To Cure A Ghost

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