This stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial Past .
Two Trees Make a Forest is a genre-shatteri.
Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities.
Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island.
She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall.
Lee hikes Mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars.
There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew.
Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan.
A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and offers a singular portrait of the complexities inherent to our ideas of identity, family, and love (Refinery29). . .
This stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial Past .
Two Trees Make a Forest is a genre-shattering book encompassing history, travel, nature, and memoir, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories.
Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities.
Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island.
She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall.
Lee hikes Mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars.
There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew.
Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan.
A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and offers a singular portrait of the complexities inherent to our ideas of identity, family, and love (Refinery29). . .
This stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial Past
