Born to Walk

- Released in hardcover in April 2015, Born to Walk was shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and reviewed in such publications as the Edmonton Journal, the Winnipeg Free Press, the Toronto Star, and the Georgia Straight.

- This book explores a simple, accessible way to counter many of the challenges we face as individuals and collectively: epidemic diabetes and obesity, climate change, the attenuation of community, and the shared exhaustion that the work-preoccupied all feel, to the detriment of their children and their engagement with the land and themselves.

- The book's release spurred a month-long walking challenge, which publishers, booksellers, and librarians participated in using #borntowalk.

- Rubinstein's personal essays go beyond fitness and weight loss to encompass politics, the economy, spirituality, health, and fitness.

- For readers of Cheryl Strayed's Wild, and fans of Michael Pollan and Rebecca Solnit.

- Of particular appeal to community organizations in urban centers such as Walk San Francisco (http: //walksf.org/)