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A unique collaboration from two of America's leading artists that explores the fascinating and hidden history of the plant world.

In this witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history behind them.

Kara Walker, one of America's greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling, many-layered watercolors.

There has never been a book like An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Childrenso inventive, surprising, and telling about what our gardens reveal.

An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children

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    A Hardback by Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
      Published 5 July 2024
      ISBN-13 9780374608255
      978-0374608255
      ISBN-10 0374608253
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      Home & Garden Gardening

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A unique collaboration from two of America's leading artists that explores the fascinating and hidden history of the plant world.

      In this witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history behind them.

      Kara Walker, one of America's greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling, many-layered watercolors.

      There has never been a book like An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Childrenso inventive, surprising, and telling about what our gardens reveal.

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