Description: "A memoir of sex, angst, and rocks, Turn to stone chronicles one woman's ascent--on walls of stone and within herself--as she faces her demons and finds freedom and power in the raw and wild adventure of rock climbing."--Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Emily Meg Weinstein was born in New York and raised in Queens and Long Island. An essayist, educator, activist, and founding member of Climbers for Palestine California, she lives, writes, and teaches on a houseboat in the San Francisco Bay, roams in her minivan, and roots for the New York Mets.
Review Quotes: "With prose that seems magic, Emily Meg Weinstein captures the inmost, almost-inexpressible experiences of climbing: those moments of transmutation, high above the ground, of stone into light, air into freedom, body into song." --Katie Ives, Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams