Donna Haraway is always extraordinary at offering refreshing ideas. In Staying With The Trouble she works with SF (String Figures, or Science Fiction, or Some Formulation from those letters). The chapters weave together disparate ideas, introducing her concept of the Cthulucene (essentially an epoch of an interconnected underworld) and linking together theory, literature, art and autobiography. The book is then an experiment in stringing things together, and a proposal for interconnected thinking.

Each chapter links in another idea. These range from ethology and more-than-human studies to feminist observations on the body, drugs, and industrialisation. The book culminates in the creation of Camille, a 5-generation long multi-species child that is the result of interdisciplinary workshops that Haraway took part in. The ideas put forward are a roadmap for a future that is hopeful, in a time sorely lacking in hope.