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- Two trees make a forest : in search of my family's past among Taiwan's mountains and coasts / by Lee, Jessica J.,1986-author.;
- After unearthing a hidden memoir of her grandfather's life, Jessica J. Lee seeks to piece together the fragments of her family's history as they moved from China to Taiwan, and then on to Canada. But as she navigates the tumultuous terrain of Taiwan, Lee finds herself having to traverse fissures in language, memory, and history, as she searches for the pieces of her family left behind. Lee was awarded the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerge Writer Award. She is originally from London, ON.
- Subjects: Lee, Jessica J., 1986-; Lee, Jessica J., 1986-; Emigration and immigration; Landscapes;
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- Dispersals : on plants, borders, and belonging / by Lee, Jessica J.,1986-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references."In fourteen essays, Dispersals explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds: from species considered invasive, like giant hogweed; to those vilified but intimate, like soy; and those like kelp, on which our futures depend. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being 'out of place'--weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Essays.; Personal narratives.; Belonging (Social psychology); Nature.; Plants.;
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