Dispersals : On Plants, Borders and Belonging – Jessica J. Lee

Softback

288 pages

Penguin Books

ISBN: 9780241996881

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 Abandonment

Born 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.