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 Li Ying Sawchyn
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A story of love, marriage, and flowers from beloved writer and gardening enthusiast Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
Six months before her wedding, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn’s fiancé broke off their engagement. Stunned, reeling, and newly uninsured, Alysia married her friend Sarah in an arrangement that secured them both free health insurance. They moved in together in the midst of the pandemic, and with time and while tending a garden, their marriage of convenience grew 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. It’s easy to casually admire something beautiful, but it takes a discerning eye to appreciate the effort that went into nourishing and tending to that beauty. In both gardening and relationships, one cannot expect to fill your garden with flowers if you are unwilling—or unable—to put in the work they need to thrive. In I Have This Thing For Flowers, Sawchyn does just that, likening the many flowers she has grown in her gardens to a range of relationships and moments of her life, reflecting on topics from motherhood to perfumery to scientific illustration.
Cataloguing many of the great romances and loves 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
“Simone Weil famously wrote that ‘Attention is prayer,’ and Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn shows this in action. Whether attending to garden or archive or memory, her incantatory prose becomes a lesson in both how to see and how to love—not just the heady blooms, but the tangles of root and thorn we encounter along the way. This voice is tender, fierce, and utterly unique.”—Erica Berry, award-winning author of Wolfish