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Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside- Finding Home in an English Garden

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK Canongate Books Ltd. 2023Description: x; 278pISBN:
  • 9781838858704
DDC classification:
  • 635.09/FAR
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General Books General Books Colombo General Stacks Non-fiction 635.09/FAR Checked out Item in process 02/08/2025 CA00030805
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

WINNER OF THE NAN SHEPHERD PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
A BOOKSHOP.ORG NATURAL HISTORY GIFT BOOK

What is home? It's a question that has troubled Marchelle Farrell for her entire life. Years ago she left Trinidad and now, uprooted once again, she heads to the peaceful English countryside - the only Black woman in her village.

Drawn to her new garden, Marchelle begins to examine the complex and emotional question of home in the context of colonialism. As her relationship with the garden deepens, she discovers that her two conflicting identities are far more intertwined than she had realised. Full of hope and healing, Uprooting is a book about finding home where we least expect it, and which invites us to reconnect to the land - and ourselves.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Dormancy
  • Viburnum I (3)
  • Primrose (21)
  • Hellebore (43)
  • Awakening
  • Blackcurrant (67)
  • Judas Tree (91)
  • Wisteria (114)
  • Blossoming
  • Rose (137)
  • Crocosmia (160)
  • Verbena (180)
  • Harvest
  • Mexican Hydrangea (205)
  • Asters (227)
  • Salvia (248)
  • Epilogue
  • Viburnum II (269)
  • Acknowledgements (276)

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