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A story made to unfold slowly.
Across twelve precise essays, Mira Leka considers the things people cultivate when permanence is not promised.
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Published by North Window Press · 2019
Essays on fruit trees, borrowed languages and the complicated work of returning.
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About the book
Across twelve precise essays, Mira Leka considers the things people cultivate when permanence is not promised.
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Five minutes from the bookMy grandmother kept seeds in envelopes that had crossed more borders than she had.
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Fiction, essays and cultural histories attentive to a region beyond the shorthand.