More Together Than Alone

ATRIA, JULY 2018
and as an audiobook from Simon & Schuster, July 2018

Availble on Amazon

AUDIO DESCRIPTION

After twelve years of research, New York Times bestselling author Mark Nepo has gathered stories and lessons of community from across cultures and history, with the aim of affirming that, despite the hardships always present, we are more together than alone. 

With the heart of a poet and the eye of a philosopher, Nepo leads the reader through a spirited mapping of case studies centered on how human beings find each other and work together.  The result is a profile of social experiments that inquire into the dynamics of relationship and community that arise out of how we're inspired and forced to care for each other.  While some moments of community were long-standing and multi-generational, others may have lasted a week or an hour.  The focus of this audiobook is to uncover the pathways that bring us together. 

Of the audiobook, Nepo says, "Why tend to all this? Because somewhere another child is being born who will ask us things we don't yet know, and we must have some sense of how to account for our time on Earth.  Ours is a complicated era and so we need every resource and example of heart and resilience we can find.  It is both comforting and challenging to realize that no one person can wrestle from the Earth the song of how we can survive together and no one voice can sing that chorus.  The stories of community in this audiobook help us accept and inhabit the spiritual fact that we need each other more than ever."

More Together Than Alone also offers an online community guide that includes: guidelines for gathering in small groups, a page on Facebook where you can share and pass on your own stories of community, questions to live with, a suggested reading and film list, and the endnotes that support the research that went into creating the audiobook.