I Have This Thing for Flowers
Essays on the Roots of Relationships
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I Have This Thing for Flowers
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Alysia Sawchyn
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A story of love, marriage, and flowers from beloved writer and gardening enthusiast Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
It begins with an ending. Six months before they were to be married, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn’s fiancée broke off their engagement, leaving her stunned and reeling. Looking for stability — and health insurance — she married a friend instead. Then, while sharing a home and tending to a garden together, the marriage of convenience turned into a marriage of love.
In science, art, and mythology, we cannot help but to see flowers as metaphors for the fleeting nature of youth, vitality, and love. While it’s easy to casually admire something beautiful, it requires a closer look to appreciate the effort that produces that beauty. In I Have This Thing For Flowers, Sawchyn does just that, likening the many flowers she has grown in her garden to a range of relationships and activities from motherhood to ex-boyfriends to Greek mythology.
Cataloguing all of the great romances of her life like an herbarium of flowers preserved from the garden, Sawchyn examines the kinds of love that can't be explained.
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"Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn writes with clarity and courage about marriage, illness, and care, reminding us that devotion isn’t a feeling so much as a choice we make again and again. These finely crafted essays demonstrate that to love flowers (and each other)—to keep showing up for them—is to insist on gentleness in a world that so often rushes past it." –Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders
“I Have This Thing For Flowers excels in how it uses the essay to build worlds, one that feel distinctly tied to the speaker, but also invite you, the reader, inside of them. I was so delighted by the warmth in this book, the vibrant imagery, that way these self-built worlds are honored, as well as the people in them. This is a generous book. ”—Hanif Abdurraqib, NYT bestselling author of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us and There's Always This Year