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A review by peonyp
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
4.5
"Not into my garden. Not into the comfort of my family. Not kneeling in the grass. Not on a walk, one drive. Not even in my own bed. I've got nowhere to go in America" (292)
Partly this book is about living with fear, the pervasive, surprisingly hard to conquer, bindweed of racism.
It is also about faith in change and the current gifts of lovingly tended land. "hope that what has not yet materialized might, someday manifest." The garden flowering in "glorious multicolored blossoms" (308-309).
I loved the catalogs of plants known and loved by name.
Partly this book is about living with fear, the pervasive, surprisingly hard to conquer, bindweed of racism.
It is also about faith in change and the current gifts of lovingly tended land. "hope that what has not yet materialized might, someday manifest." The garden flowering in "glorious multicolored blossoms" (308-309).
I loved the catalogs of plants known and loved by name.