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Ghosts of Distant Trees

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This collection achieves an admirable balance between critical interrogation - of the self, others, and the systems of power that inform our interactions - and compassion. Beautifully written.
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"A luminous collection of essays that maps memory and place with wit, precision, and a generous honesty about what it means to hold the past beside our evolving present.

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"This is not a typical ghost story. Although there is a restless ghost, it's the restless country that is truly haunting."
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“ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP
Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.”
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“At times like these, she thought, it was probably a good idea to carry a small hand puppet.”
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