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A review by wickedgrumpy
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
emotional
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
3.25
The way the author talks about their connection to nature is truly evocative and beautiful. There’s a familial component to it that, at first, was comforting in that you can find a community all around you if you would but care to look. But then it began to center motherhood and the assumption that if female, you too will be a mother and experience these things, which was unfortunate. It became a repetitive narrative that dragged itself to the finish line.
Minor: Cannibalism, Genocide, Racism, Abandonment, Death, Pregnancy, Animal death, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Cancer, Animal cruelty, Classism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry