I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

From New York Times bestselling author Sarah Wilson comes a deeply moving, wise guide to finding joy and meaning in a world that seems to be falling apart

It’s hard to escape the feeling that something is deeply wrong . . . that life has become precariously off-balance. We are hit hourly with headlines about catastrophic wildfires, unprecedented flooding, record heat waves, collapsing democracies, AI and nuclear threat, rising economic inequality, widespread unrest, and more. In I Eat the Stars, Sarah Wilson argues we are undergoing what every complex civilization before us has—systemic collapse.

So how do we continue to live as sensitive humans amidst such a tumultuous shift? What does life look like when the systems we rely on deteriorate? Should we be having kids? How do we make financial decisions? Should we be prepping? And, most importantly, how do we avoid succumbing to doom and despair?

In I Eat the Stars, Sarah Wilson delves into these pressing questions. Drawing on many years of research and wisdom gained from more than 200 conversations with philosophers, poets, game theorists, and spiritual leaders, Wilson takes readers on an intimate journey as she lays out a path for living fully, meaningfully, and beautifully through these troubled times. Our predicament, she argues, is ultimately an urgent call to us all to relish what is valuable to us—to eat the stars—and to return to our humanity once again.

I Eat the Stars empowers readers to move beyond panic, doom, and despair. With her warm, incisively intelligent, wise, and down-to-earth voice, Wilson creates a space for readers to confront their fears and anxieties about an uncertain future, guiding them toward one rooted in truth, hope, justice, creativity, community, and to step up as “warriors” and meet the moment.

We are in what we were warned about for decades. But from a crisis comes stunning possibility.

Sarah Wilson is a New York Times bestselling author, journalist and founder of IQuitSugar.com. She has published 15 I Quit Sugar books in 46 countries and most recently she published First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, A New Story of Anxiety. She was ranked as one of the top 200 most influential authors in the world in 2017 and 2018, based on web and international book scan algorithms and in Greatist.com’s 100 most influential health experts in 2015.

Mark Manson has described "The Beast" as “the best book about anxiety” he’s ever read. NBC's Carson Daly cited it as has "favorite book". Former Australian of the Year Prof Patrick McGorry described it as, “indeed quite extraordinary, illuminating what is at once a nomadic journey, a cri de coeur and a compendium of hard-won wisdom flowing from a uniquely talented individual… a tour de force.”

Other facts that might interest: Sarah was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine Australia at 29, the host of MasterChef Australia, holds a record in the Guinness Book (you can Google that further if you like), is a mad hiker, explorer and minimalist. She lives between the US and Bondi Beach, Sydney and ocean swims most days.

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“Humanity seems to be at a pretty precarious point in history (climate change, political instability — all the things), which can leave some of us feeling helpless and hopeless. Wilson’s soul-searching book poses hard questions about the future while exploring ways to grapple with uncertainty and find joy despite it all.”
—AARP

“Sarah Wilson became a bestselling author with her book First, We Make the Beast Beautiful. Now she’s back with I Eat the Stars. Wilson wants you to know that you aren’t the only one struggling to live in a world seemingly on fire. Everyone is fighting to keep hope during these troubled times. In her new book, Wilson gives advice on how we can move forward and keep hope, against all of the odds against us.”
—Book Riot

“I Eat the Stars is a book for right now. It is timely and urgent. The writing is incredibly present and conscious. It brings a sense of urgency to the lessons Wilson imparts, proving that the work we do to understand and the decisions we make to live beautifully anyway matter. . . . You will uncover a new way of living that will inspire you to forge forward into a deeply uncertain future.”
—BookTrib

“Sarah Wilson delivers one of the year’s most original and thought-provoking explorations of how to live wisely through uncertain times.”
—Balanced Achievement

"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."
—Liam Neeson, actor and Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF

"This book feels like a raw conversation with the friend who can capture 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."
—Lena Headey, activist and star of Game of Thrones

"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."
—Paul Hawken, New York Times bestselling author of Drawdown