2024 Openbook Award - Book of the Year
“Just like the plants I portray, I also tell stories while migrating.”
People tend to think of plants as static, but plants may leave their native habitat and float across the ocean in ballast water; or they may be deliberately collected by collectors who travel to foreign countries to reform the food production of their motherland; or, in a globalized world, immigrants who leave their homes take plants with them, carrying a small part of their native land with them.
This book combines memoir, history and natural science to explore the ties between the plant and human worlds, and the author also finds resonances and contrasts in the migration of plants and humans.
The plants examined in the fourteen articles of the book are, to some extent, considered "out of place". Through them, readers can think about the true meaning of "home", "belonging" and "inclusion" from a new perspective.
Paperback/324 pages