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A heavy theme. With occasional reflections of the healing power we enjoy in relationships with trees and other plants, Montgomery balances family and autobiographical stories with deeply painful moments of race-based injustice that is rooted in specific time and place across the US and occasional globally far-afield mentions to places such as Benin.