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Risen, Alexandra.
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Risen, Alexandra.
Gardeners -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography.
Gardening -- Philosophy.
Gardening -- Therapeutic use -- Biography.
Gardening -- Anecdotes.
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Risen, Alexandra.
Risen, Alexandra.
Gardeners -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography.
Gardening -- Philosophy.
Gardening -- Therapeutic use -- Biography.
Gardening -- Anecdotes.
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Unearthed : love, acceptance, and other lessons from an abandoned garden : a memoir /
Alexandra
Risen
.
by
Risen
,
Alexandra
.
Viking, [2016]
Call #:
635.092 R595u
Subjects
Risen
,
Alexandra
.
Gardeners -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography.
Gardening -- Philosophy.
Gardening -- Therapeutic use -- Biography.
Gardening -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9780143198956 (pbk.)
Description:
xx, 271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273-277]).
Contents:
Author's note -- Prologue: Roots -- Sour cherries -- Knotweed -- Lily of the valley -- Cattails -- Apple trees -- Maples -- Periwinkle -- Primroses -- Sumac -- Serviceberries -- Roses -- Bleeding hearts -- Wild grasses -- Irises -- Oaks -- Ginkgo -- Willow trees -- Mulberries -- Wisteria -- Clay -- Epilogue: Harvest -- Foraging guidelines -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography.
Summary:
"
Alexandra
Risen
's father dies just as she and her husband purchase a nondescript house set atop a natural gorge in the middle of the city. The garden is choked with weeds and crumbling structures. Over the years, as she undertakes the replanting, it stirs memories of her childhood when a nearby forest was her only escape from an empty home life. As
Risen
beats back the bushes to unveil the garden’s mysteries, her mother has a stroke and develops dementia. On one of her last visits home, she discovers an envelope of yellowed documents that helps her piece together some of her parents' unknown story. Uprooted from the Ukraine to work in Nazi Germany during the Second World War, her father and mother met and married in a Displaced Persons camp before emigrating to Edmonton. They never discussed their troubled past. Her father shut himself into a safe, silent world and spoke few words to Alex during his lifetime. Her mother sought refuge in her garden amidst her vegetables, flowers and fruit trees. As
Risen
toils in her own garden, lifelong resentments and misunderstandings are replaced with memories and connections to her parents. Organized around various flowers, trees and shrubs that evoke particular memories, Unearthed is an affecting account of tangled family relationships, reconciliation and the healing power of nature.
Alexandra
Risen
lives in Toronto"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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