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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 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 de

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 1/25/2024
      ISBN13: 9780241597125, 978-0241597125
      ISBN10: 241597129

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 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 de

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