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LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2024
An invigorating cross-pollination of memoir and natural history, both beautifully phrased and delicately structuredthis book deserves your time and attention' Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment
A poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worlds
A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A seaweed drifts through an ocean. A tree is planted on a shifting border. A shrub is uprooted from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere?
Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, steeped in both literary and scientific traditions, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion.
In this vibrant book of linked essays she explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds, and the echoes and counterpoints she detects in the migrati
