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Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden

byCamille DUngy

Camille T. Dungy turns the transformation of her Colorado garden into a meditation on nature, race, motherhood, history, and belonging. As she replaces a conventional lawn with a diverse living landscape, she confronts rules about which plants—and which people—are considered appropriate in particular spaces. The memoir connects cultivation with Black environmental thought, family memory, climate, and the labor of care. Dungy expands the tradition of nature writing by showing that gardens are never separate from culture, and that making room for biodiversity can also become an act of personal and political reclamation.

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Publication date

(May 2, 2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781982195304