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The Great Refusal
A New Vision of Resistance
Contributors
By Casey Gerald
Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- Sep 15, 2026
- Page Count
- 272 pages
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- ISBN-13
- 9780316607773
Price
$30.00Price
$40.00 CADFormat
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- Trade Paperback (Large Print) $30.00 $40.00 CAD
- ebook $14.99 $19.99 CAD
- Hardcover $28.00 $37.00 CAD
- Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $18.99
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“Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary.”
–Marlon James on The Will Be No Miracles Here
Most afternoons for the past three years, Casey Gerald took a walk. He would pass the compound that Elon Musk was building in his neighborhood; the burned-down Freedman’s church; the little house where he and his lover Jack had seen a shooting star. He knew the world was crumbling, but he didn’t fret. He had been promised: When it breaks, you’ll be ready.
“There is a great unfolding going on,” Gerald writes, “and all the clues for what’s to come are planted in the people.” In this quietly redemptive and lyrical book, Gerald shares his map for finding those clues, finding each other, and finding our way out of this dark and wearied time. On the other side of No, Gerald insists, there is a Yes—an embrace of what we really want, what we might finally claim once we refuse.
Calling forth a kaleidoscopic cast, from Odysseus to D’Angelo, Sun Tzu to Simone Biles, Black literati and desert mystics, Gerald implores us to take our power back and to remake the world together, on our terms. Written with Didion’s cold eye and Baldwin’s unflinching urgency, and with the dark humor of a man who’s seen too much but still wants to see what’s next, The Great Refusal is a lifeline from the other side of ruin.
