We Will Rest! The Art of Escape

By: Tricia Hersey

Published by Little Brown, 2024

A modern sacred object--beautifully illustrated and inspired by hymnals and abolitionist pamphlets--helping to escape from grind culture and dehumanizing systems, by Tricia Hersey, "effin' genius" (Glennon Doyle) and bestselling author of Rest is Resistance



Give the gift of rest and escape with this exquisitely designed volume of inspiring writings by Tricia Hersey, powerfully illustrated by award-winning designer George McCalman and featuring a silk ribbon marker.



We don't believe we are worthy of rest unless we burn ourselves out to accomplish it. Our thinking has been limited by disconnection, sleep deprivation, and the unattainable call for perfection. The systems will never give us rest. It is something we must create for ourselves and each other.



Just as the North Star guided the enslaved on their journeys to freedom, visionary artist and founder of The Nap Ministry Tricia Hersey leads us to imagine a new world: one in which we subvert the narrative of productivity at all costs and embrace rest as a healing spiritual practice.



We Will Rest! is a modern sacred object, medicine for a sick and exhausted world. Weaving together meditations and poetry with storytelling and art, Hersey provokes liberation through refusal and trickster rebellion in the face of capitalism and white supremacy.



There is another way. Focus on the escape. Focus on the transformation. We can just be. We are beautiful. We are enough. We are escape artists. We Will Rest!

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Have you ever noticed

when you ask for rest

the body becomes a holy trumpet

the walls come tumbling down?