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The indirect route to progress - where there's success without victory - a win perhaps for future generations, if not immediately, is the focus of award-winning Guardian columnist Rebecca Solnit's latest essay collection.
No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain argues for the long-term view and the power of collective action, making a case for seeding change wherever possible, and offering us all a path out of the wilderness.
Rebecca Solnit talks to Susie about celebrating indirect and unpredictable consequences, and embracing slowness and imperfection, which, she argues, are key to understanding the possibilities of change.
