How to Explain Yourself to Wolves

How to Explain Yourself to Wolves is a literary memoir about what happens when explanation becomes a survival strategy—and what it takes to stop carrying responsibility for everything you can understand.

Through maps, weather, recurring objects, impossible landscapes, and named territories—including the Valley of Please Understand Me and the Forest of Other People’s Weather—the book gives physical shape to patterns of vigilance, compliance, self-erasure, and the instinct to mistake understanding for safety.

It is the record of learning that compassion does not require self-erasure, and that understanding someone does not make their damage yours to carry.