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The Gospel of Trees - A Memoir (Paperback)
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The Gospel of Trees - A Memoir (Paperback)
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In an "eye-opening memoir" (People) "as beautiful as it is
discomfiting" (The New Yorker), award-winning writer Apricot Irving
untangles her youth on a missionary compound in Haiti.Apricot
Irving grew up as a missionary's daughter in Haiti. Her father was
an agronomist, a man who hiked alone into the deforested hills to
preach the gospel of trees. Her mother and sisters spent their days
in the confines of the hospital compound they called home. As a
child, this felt like paradise to Irving; as a teenager, it became
a prison. Outside of the walls of the missionary enclave, Haiti was
a tumult of bugle-call bus horns and bicycles that jangled over
hard-packed dirt, road blocks and burning tires triggered by
political upheaval, the clatter of rain across tin roofs, and the
swell of voices running ahead of the storm. Poignant and explosive,
Irving weaves a portrait of a missionary family that is
unflinchingly honest: her father's unswerving commitment to his
mission, her mother's misgivings about his loyalty, the brutal
history of colonization. Drawing from research, interviews, and
journals--her parents' as well as her own--this memoir in many
voices evokes a fractured family finding their way to kindness
through honesty. Told against the backdrop of Haiti's long history
of intervention, it grapples with the complicated legacy of those
who wish to improve the world, while bearing witness to the defiant
beauty of an undefeated country. A lyrical meditation on trees and
why they matter, loss and privilege, love and failure. The Gospel
of Trees is a "lush, emotional debut...A beautiful memoir that
shows how a family altered by its own ambitious philanthropy might
ultimately find hope in their faith and love for each other, and
for Haiti." (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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