How to Hope

Take a walk, go to a protest, wait out a storm, meet your neighbor, lay in bed, throw a party. When faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges, how do we move forward? Award-winning author Denali Nalamalapu, a climate activist who has stood up against injustice time and time again, needs help finding hope. Through twelve illustrated vignettes on gender identity, climate change, community, protest, gardening, mutual aid, mountains, and depression, How to Hope is a moving glimpse into all that can be possible in the wake of hard times. Without denying our pain and the injustices that got us here, this gem of a book offers readers a compassionate companion as they imagine a livable future. You can cultivate hope, even when it seems like there’s not much left. It’s within you, your relationships, and the flowers you can still grow.

• “Hope is not something we simply find. It is something we create, nurture, and share. In How to Hope, Denali Sai Nalamalapu offers a beautiful, deeply human reminder that even in our most difficult moments, we have the capacity to imagine a different future—and craft it into being. Tender, courageous, and profoundly necessary.” 
  Debbie Millman, author of Love Letter to a Garden