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.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism