We Will Rest!

The Art of Escape

Tricia Hersey, George McCalman

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Little, Brown & Company
10 December 2024

Psychology; Sleep disorders & therapy; Coping with illness; Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem; Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice; Gift books

Escape from grind culture and dehumanizing systems with this visionary guide from the author of the New York Times bestseller Rest Is Resistance

We don't believe we are worthy of rest unless we burn ourselves out to accomplish it. Our thinking has been limited by disconnection, sleep deprivation, and the unattainable call for perfection. The systems will never give us rest. It is something we must create for ourselves and each other.

Just as the North Star guided the enslaved on their journeys to freedom, visionary artist and founder of The Nap Ministry Tricia Hersey leads us to imagine a new world: one in which we subvert the narrative of productivity at all costs and embrace rest as a healing spiritual practice.

Inspired by vintage hymnals, prayer books, and abolitionist pamphlets, We Will Rest! is a modern sacred object, medicine for a sick and exhausted world. Weaving together meditations and poetry with storytelling and powerful art, Hersey provokes liberation through refusal and trickster rebellion in the face of capitalism and white supremacy.

There is another way. Focus on the escape. Focus on the transformation. We can just be. We are beautiful. We are enough. We are escape artists. We Will Rest!
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Have you ever noticed

when you ask for rest

the body becomes a holy trumpet

the walls come tumbling down?

By: Tricia Hersey
Illustrated by: George McCalman
Imprint: Little, Brown & Company
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 184mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780316365550
ISBN 10: 0316365556
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 10 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tricia Hersey is a multidisciplinary artist, theologian and founder of The Nap Ministry. She is the originator of the '""rest as resistance"" and ""rest as reparations"" frameworks, and collaborates with communities all over the world to create sacred spaces where the liberatory, restorative, and disruptive power of rest can take hold. Tricia's work is seeded within the soils of Black radical thought, somatics, afrofuturism, womanism, and liberation theology. She is a Chicago native who believes in daydreaming, porch sitting and poetry.

Reviews for We Will Rest!: The Art of Escape

""Rest is a matter of life and death.""--YES! Magazine ""We all need the permission, encouragement and determination to take a break, escape, and rest, and here it is! ""--MS Magazine ""This beautifully illustrated meditation offers...a healthy perspective on the transformative power of relaxation."" --Shelf Awareness ""Featuring impactful illustrations throughout and with strong spiritual messages, We Will Rest is a moving text that will make a meaningful gift for everyone...."" --Booklist ""Hersey beautifully delineates through the use of vintage hymns, prayer books, and abolitionist pamphlets, that rest is a birthright and a necessity and an [antidote] for a tired world.""--Essence, ""Top 20 Book Picks for Fall 2024"" ""Warm, wise, and humane.""--Kirkus