Review

Lisa Wells urges us to find ways to connect ourselves to the earth

By Ian McFarlane
August 21 2021 - 12:00am
Lisa Wells: "Maybe the promised land only ever existed in the promise itself." Picture: Shutterstock
Lisa Wells: "Maybe the promised land only ever existed in the promise itself." Picture: Shutterstock
  • Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World, by Lisa Wells. Black Inc. $34.99.

An anxious world, pandemic entrapped, and haunted by images of bushfires and floods signalling climate crisis doesn't readily predicate belief. In fact, with prospects of returning to any kind of "normal" looking increasingly bleak, a Dickensian "epoch of incredulity" might seem more likely. How, then, shall we live? The question runs like a shadow cast by the subjective metaphor of the phrase at the end of the world, as Lisa Wells sets off in search of believers.

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