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Sarah has recorded these intimate voice notes for readers. They’re from conversations she had with her dad shortly after writing the book.
They’re the kinds of conversations she figures you’ll want to be part of as you try to make sense of the world… and this book.
They’re there for the moments when it feels overwhelming and you need a reminder other people are talking about this very real stuff.
In them, she explores:
- The pain of letting go of hope
- Staying steady for everyone
- The loneliness of seeing things clearly
- Whether we’re as broken as we think
- How to keep going without turning away
Sarah and her dad have struggled to feel steady and want you to feel less alone when you’re in the same place.
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“What the hell is happening to our world? The wonderful Sarah Wilson writes straight to the beating heart of what we all need to hear. This loving and uplifting book is the wise guide that can hold our hands as we tread these dark times.”
“This book is like a raw conversation with the friend who can cap- ture where we are as a collective. There are some people I do not want to ever leave this planet. If we can keep Sarah Wilson and David Attenborough forever, there will always be beacons of possibility to guide us.”
“Praising Sarah Wilson sufficiently is a prodigious task. Her range, her freedom of spirit, her brilliance, her unflinching honesty. . . . I Eat the Stars is a feisty, outspoken testament that devours wobbly beliefs and half-lived lies. Wilson’s not here to soothe. Her writing agitates. It awakens our exasperation, but also our compassion. It is unlike any book you have ever read. Be warned: You may never see the world again as you do now.”
“Sarah Wilson has taken material that I am deeply familiar with in my own work and made it come alive in compelling and captivating ways. I love her memorable prose. I love the nonlinear romp through facts and emotions. I love her presence. This is a long, hard road we’re on, and I am glad for her companionship on the journey.”
A few things you might be wondering about I Eat the Stars
It’s from a poem by NASA astronomer and poet Rebecca Elson who died at 39 from non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.It appears in her book of poetry, Responsibility to Awe (a thoroughly awesome title), which she wrote as she faced her own bodily collapse. It starts,
Sometimes as an antidote
To fear of death,
I eat the stars.
The full poem is here.
Elson died in 1999. I read her poem a decade later and it sang to me as I wrote this book. The line “I eat the stars” encapsulates what I want to share with you. The world has shifted off its axis, and things are going to become increasingly fearful and existential. What is left now is an invite to really live, to eat up life, to fully feel and breathe in the sacred gift of this universe. Now.
Many challenging or unconventional books—War and Peace, Lolita, much of Virginia Woolf’s work—were first published as serialisations.
I began writing in real time, trying to make sense of the “everythingness” unfolding around us. Tens of thousands of readers joined me week by week, responding, questioning, and shaping the direction of the work as it evolved.
This book is a refined and expanded version of that process. I’ve included some of the community’s questions and reflections, as I hope they might help you navigate your own—and feel a little less alone in them.
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The book draws on more than 200 interviews with global thinkers, including William MacAskill, Holden Karnofsky, Tomas Björkman, Jonathan Rowson, Gaya Herrington, Frances Haugen, Nate Hagens, Margaret Atwood, and Douglas Rushkoff, among others.
I also attended conferences, travelled extensively, and had a range of unexpected encounters along the way—from policy makers to public figures, from activists to spiritual teachers.
It publishes on 5th May in Australia and 16th June in the UK and US.
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About Sarah Wilson
Sarah Wilson is a New York Times bestselling author, journalist, and speaker, known for her work exploring anxiety, modern life, and how to live well in uncertain times.
She is the author of First, We Make the Beast Beautiful and This One Wild and Precious Life, and the founder of the global I Quit Sugar movement.
In I Eat the Stars, she turns her attention to the deeper questions many of us are quietly asking—about collapse, meaning, and how to keep living fully in a world that no longer feels certain.
