How I Became a Tree, Sumana RoyAn exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerers Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillards Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Sumana Roy has writtengrowna radiant and wondrous book.Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old A Journey on Foot Beautiful. . . . Roy weaves together science, nature, personal narrative, literature, sociology, and more to keep the reader turning pagesand to

'Meditation'

it is an elegiac meditation on love

and the ruined city is a strange Expressionist jungle after the Blitz

February 12

and someone

It is an unlove story

New York Times-bestselling author of Six Crimson Cranes

No one thinks to ask questions

And I had been thinking about all the things I would tell myself if I could call myself when I was fourteen

and Robb Willer

About the author: Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/_l_f_nju_/

claiming to be dying and desperately awaiting her lover - throws herself on Pasquale's generous mercy