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: Details her high-risk pregnancy with her first daughter, the lack of compassion in medical settings, and her complex relationship with her own deceased mother.

: Describes a bittersweet adult trip to Prince Edward Island, the setting of her first major TV role in Road to Avonlea . She contrasts her traumatic childhood experiences on the set with her present life as a mother.

: The book's central philosophy is that "courage... is not fearlessness but our relationship to fear". Polley argues for moving away from a "protective crouch" toward an examined life. Critical Reception RunTowardstheDangerepub

25+ Copies Paperback Run Towards the Danger (Confrontations with a Body of Memory) - 9780593300374 by Sarah Polley

: Recounts the physical endangerment she faced at age eight on the set of Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen . She reflects on the failure of adults to protect her and the broader issue of child safeguarding in film. : Details her high-risk pregnancy with her first

: Focuses on her decision not to come forward during the trial of Canadian broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi for sexual assault. She explores the reasons why victims often remain silent and the "imperfect" nature of trauma-affected memory.

: Polley treats memory as a "reciprocal pressure dance" between past and present. She interrogates how her adult perspective allows her to re-examine childhood traumas and find "lighter" ways to carry them. : The book's central philosophy is that "courage

: Much of the book centers on the physical experience of living in a body that has been site to both struggle (scoliosis, injury, assault) and strength (childbirth, recovery).