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Two Trees Make a Forest

In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts

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Two Trees Make a Forest

Auteur(s): Jessica J. Lee
Narrateur(s): Jessica J. Lee
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WINNER of the 2021 Banff Mountain Book Prize in Adventure Travel
WINNER of the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Shortlisted for the 2021 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
Shortlisted for Canada Reads 2021
On CBC’s list of “the best Canadian nonfiction of 2020”

An exhilarating, anti-colonial reclamation of nature writing and memoir, rooted in the forests and flatlands of Taiwan from the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize for Emerging Writers

"Two Trees Make a Forest is a finely faceted meditation on memory, love, landscape—and finding a home in language. Its short, shining sections tilt yearningly toward one another; in form as well as content, this is a beautiful book about the distance between people and between places, and the means of their bridging." —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland

A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew.

Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall. Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island. Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities.

Two Trees Make a Forest is a genre-shattering book encompassing history, travel, nature, and memoir, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories. Environnement Essais et carnets de voyage Science Sciences biologiques

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I enjoyed the writing style … but it was a slog! I had a very difficult time finishing it! It felt like there were two very different novels happening in one book. Although I appreciated the story, and the author’s obvious skill, it was not my favourite!

Well written … painfully slow in parts

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The slow pace of the narrator and the story become a character in its telling. Chapter 13 was a great reminder of WHY we need to know our own history to enlighten us as to how far we have come and what next steps we should take.

A great reminder!

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This story perfectly intertwined the authors Heritage and the adventures that she made in Taiwan.

A really fun and interesting book

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This is one of the most beautifully and lovingly written books I have read in a very long time. The way Lee weaves together her search for home and her love for nature is arresting. I found myself crying at the beauty more than once. I look forward to her future books.

Achingly Joyfully Poignant and Beautiful

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I really wanted to like this book, but I found the botany aspect overshadowed the story so I was just waiting to get through those parts to get to the story. I didn't find myself connect to or anxious to learn about the fate of the characters, like I usually do. It, sadly, fell flat for me.

I just couldn't get into it

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