Dispersals
ISBN: 9780241996881
Author : Jessica J. Lee
Published: 2025
Publisher: Penguin
Number of pages: 288
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 198×130
Author : Jessica J. Lee
Published: 2025
Publisher: Penguin
Number of pages: 288
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 198×130
Description
HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2025‘An invigorating cross-pollination of memoir and natural history, both beautifully phrased and delicately structured – this book deserves your time and attention’ Cal Flyn, author of Islands of AbandonmentBorn in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion.In Dispersals, she examines the echoes and counterpoints in the migration of plants and people – and the language we use to describe them. Combining memoir, history and scientific research, Lee questions how both plants and people come to belong – or not – and reveals how all our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.‘Contemplative, elegant’ New Statesman'At once expansive and intimate, and most of all, gorgeously written. This is a book I will return to often over the course of my life’ Nina Mingya Powles, author of Small Bodies of Water
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