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07/09/2020 12:01 AMHope Jahren’s father taught physics and earth science for 42 years, working from a laboratory that was her childhood playground. Hope knew she would grow up to become a scientist, and so she did. As a geochemist and geobiologist, she made a career out of her endless fascination with things that grow from the ground and with the ground itself. This engrossing memoir is told with respect and reverence for the study but with simplicity and the familiarity of an old friend reciting a brownie recipe. You’ll like her and you’ll root for her, and you will never look at a tree the same way again.
Paul, Breakwater Books, Guilford