Books that Offer Strength, Courage, and Resolve
Mesa Refuge residencies are free and funded by generous donors like you. This spring we must raise $75,000 so that we can host 100 writers and activists at Mesa Refuge this year.
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On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters
In On Muscle, Bonnie Tsui brings her signature blend of science, culture, immersive reporting, and personal narrative to examine not just what muscles are but what they mean to us. Woven throughout are stories of Tsui’s childhood with her Chinese immigrant artist dad—a black belt in karate—who schools her from a young age in a kind of quirky, in-house Muscle Academy.
Buy the book at Pt. Reyes Books
From Bonnie:
“Every day I am changed by the books I read. To receive someone else’s words is to open yourself up to worlds you have not yet imagined—that’s a kind of magic.
The first time I came to Mesa, I was pregnant with my first child, unsure of how being a parent would impact my life and identity as a writer. When I returned for the second time, it was early in a COVID-altered landscape. In the midst of seismic change, the time and space to think expansively is a true gift.”
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Mesa Refuge provides writers and activists with the unique gifts of protected time, sanctuary, and community so that they can share the transformative stories, ideas, and knowledge the world needs to hear.
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