Supremely Tiny Acts

<b>Winner (Bronze Autobiography & Memoir) 2021 <i>Foreword </i>Indies Awards</b><br> <br> I think we have to get to the real to catch the facts we have to hold on to what we see. . . .in this time where lies are currency Sonya Huber writes in her book-length essay <i>Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir of a Day. </i>On the theory that naming the truths of quotidian experience can counter the dangerous power of lies she carefully recounts two anxiety-fueled days one fall. On the first she is arrested as part of a climate protest in Times Square. On the other she must make it to her court appearance while also finding time to take her son to get his learner's permit. Paying equal attention to minor details passing thoughts and larger political concerns around activism and parenting in the Trump-era United States Huber asks: How <i>can </i>one simultaneously be a good mother a good worker and a good citizen? As she reflects on the meaning of protest and on whiteness and other forms of privilege within political activism Huber offers a wry self-aware and stirring testament to the everyday as a seedbed for meaningful change.