A review by sarahfowlerwolfe
You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer by Joy Marie Clarkson

3.0

Joy has chosen academia as a career, and it really shows in her recent work (her Substack, her podcast, and this book). This is a series of essays about metaphor, but essays in the British college sense i.e. prewritten lectures that are basically short research papers. It's fairly dry without much personal feeling involved, but filled with quotes from others. There is nothing wrong with this, but it doesn't make for a particularly strong or engaging book.