{"product_id":"making-a-life-things-that-matter-and-how-we-create-them","title":"Making A Life: Things That Matter and How We Create Them","description":"\u003cp\u003eCreativity can live in a needle, a foraging basket or a growing belly. Sarah Austin Casson goes looking for it around the world and finds it arriving in her own body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReadical Key Points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA memoir of craft, travel and pregnancy by environmental anthropologist Sarah Austin Casson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSettings include sashiko workshops in Kyoto, sea foraging with Japan's ama, Danish knitting circles, and seaweed gathering and sewing sessions in California\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThemes: creativity, community, womanhood and motherhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback, 246 pages, Dair Press (2026)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCasson sets out to understand what making means, whether the thing made is a garment, food gathered from the shore or a family. Each practice she joins becomes a way of asking how creative work shapes a life and ties people to one another. Her travels take on new weight when she becomes pregnant, and the book follows the pleasures and frustrations of making things while a larger kind of making is underway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt speaks to readers who knit, sew or forage, to readers of travel memoir, and to readers thinking about creativity through pregnancy and early motherhood. Each workshop adds a few stitches to a larger piece of work, and the piece in progress is a family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Austin Casson has worked as an environmental anthropologist with policymakers, scientists, farmers and wilderness rangers on subjects including climate change and wilderness conservation. She studied anthropology at Grinnell College (BA) and the environment at Yale (MESc), and her work has been funded by grants including Yale Law School's Global Justice Fellowship. She is also the author of How to Start Running (and Enjoy It) and How to Do Breathwork (And Enjoy It).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brand New and Readical Ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReadical™ is an independent bookstore and reading-products brand built around a simple idea: books matter most when what we learn leaves the page and enters our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApply the Page. Get Readical™.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dair Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47854466859157,"sku":"NEW-ING-9798994482308","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/5861\/3909\/files\/57_7ee0f352-e5e5-45b3-b751-23d91aca17e9.jpg?v=1787902332","url":"https:\/\/readical.com\/products\/making-a-life-things-that-matter-and-how-we-create-them","provider":"Readical","version":"1.0","type":"link"}