This book is fabulous. It captured my interest from the first chapter. Hope Jahren is a gifted and engaging writer and I hope she writes more nonfiction, but non-technical, books like this one. Her stories from her career as a scientist are funny, familiar (especially for those of us who make a living in academia), and revealing. She writes about her colleagues, her own personal struggles with her own demons, and she interweaves these personal and professional stories with scientific observations about plants and trees. She places a story about her own struggles with anxiety next to a chapter on trees and how they struggle to grow and survive. It was masterfully crafted and I could not put it down until I finished.
If you want a captivating non-fiction book that will teach you a little bit about yourself as well as a little bit about botany and geology, then look no further. I loved this book and I give it five beach umbrellas.
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