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The gospel of trees : a memoir / Apricot A. Irving.
by
Irving, Apricot Anderson,
Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Call #:
266.0092 I72g
Subjects
Irving, Apricot Anderson.
Irving, Apricot Anderson
--
Family.
Children of missionaries
--
Haiti
--
Biography
.
Missionaries
--
Haiti
--
Biography
.
Americans
--
Haiti
--
Biography
.
Missions
--
Haiti
.
Haiti
--
Social conditions.
Haiti
--
Biography
.
ISBN:
9781451690453
1451690452
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description:
373 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary:
Apricot Irving recounts her childhood as a missionary's daughter in
Haiti
during a time of upheaval, both in the country and in her home.
Haiti
- a country easy to sensationalize but difficult to understand. Her father was an agronomist, a man who hiked alone into the hills with a macouti of seeds to preach the gospel of trees in a deforested but resilient country. Her mother and sisters, meanwhile, spent most of their days in the confines of the hospital compound they called home. As a child, this felt like paradise to Irving; as a teenager, the same setting felt like 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, the clamor of chickens and cicadas, the sudden, insistent clatter of rain as it hammered across tin roofs and the swell of voices running ahead of the storm. As she emerges into womanhood, an already confusing process made all the more complicated by Christianity's demands, Irving struggles to understand her father's choices. His unswerving commitment to his mission, and the anger and despair that followed failed enterprises, threatened to splinter his family. The story of a family crushed by ideals, and restored to kindness by honesty. Told against the backdrop of
Haiti
's long history of intervention, often unwelcome, it grapples with the complicated legacy of those who wish to improve the world. An exploration of missionary culpability and idealism, told from within. Apricot Irving is currently based in the woods outside Portland, Oregon. Her missionary parents moved to
Haiti
when she was six years old; she left at the age of fifteen. She returned to
Haiti
in the spring of 2010 to cover the earthquake for the radio program This American Life. Her oral history project, BoiseVoices.com, was a collaboration between youth and elders to record the stories of a neighborhood in the midst of gentrification.
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Memoirs.
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