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Jun 03, 2020
I will never look at a tree in quite the same way again after reading Hope Jahren's memoir of what it's like to be a woman and a scientist in the United States today. She combines her personal history with deep and engaging dives into the lives of different plants. How do cacti survive? How does one stand of trees give others of their species the weapons to fight off insects? How does a research scientist manage to keep a lab going when scrambling for funding seems to take as much time as doing the actual science? Jahren's writing is often funny, quite lyrical, and always thoughtful. And now I want to go plant a tree!