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Kyo Maclear is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and children's author. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages and published in over twenty-five countries. She is the author of the hybrid memoir Birds Art Life (2017), winner of the Trillium Book Award. Kyo holds a doctorate in environmental humanities and is on faculty at the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA.A lucid and compelling memoir of family rupture and repair and the power of plants to anchor us in the world
Sue Stuart-Smith, author of the Sunday Times Bestseller The Well Gardened Mind
Magnificent . . . I will never forget it
- Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love,
A mind-altering and supremely generous exploration of kinship, selfhood, memory, and the roots we share across time, space and species
- Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything,
A lyrical and at times cryptic meditation on nature, kinship and the lives of both humans and plants
New Statesman
In this beautiful book Kyo Maclear unravels the knotty stories we inherit - and create - about who we are and where we come from. With deftness and clarity she ranges from meditations on memory, belonging and truth, to the earthy tangibility of the garden. Fierce, loving, inquisitive, devastating - this book got under my nails and into my heart. I loved it
- Lulah Ellender, author of Grounding,
An alluring blend of grief, racial identity and memory
The Bookseller
Three months after the death of her father, Maclear discovered they were not biologically related but finding the truth proves difficult as her mother's language and memory are failing. Instead, mother and daughter begin to tend a garden together as Maclear begins to unearth the past
Stylist's pick of the best non-fiction for 2024
Unearthing is a masterful lyric exploration of identity, inheritance and belonging in the wake of an unsettling discovery, that deftly queries what makes us who we are, and what happens when the stability of our foundations is challenged. It investigates nature, nurture and genetic legacies, who our parents are before and beyond us, and who we become because or despite them. Both seasonal, contemporary and spiralling through botanic and genetic time, the writing is absorbing and transformative; the story will grow through you
- Polly Atkin, author of Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better,
A tender and precious gift of a book, that holds out grief like an opening flower. Deeply moving, beautifully written and delicately delivered, its story holds a profound truth about the complexity and simplicity of what it is to love, and to lose, and what it means to find ourselves within both
- Victoria Bennett, author of All My Wild Mothers: Motherhood, loss and an apothecary garden,
I could not put this gorgeous book down. Maclear interweaves her personal and family story with that of the plants she encounters and grows, subtly revealing how knowing the truth of our own stories is an essential part of navigating a world in ecological crisis. Unearthing is the rarest kind of book: at once vulnerable and precise, gentle but unforgettable
- Jessica J. Lee, author of Two Trees Make a Forest,
Complex story with delicacy and charm
Mail on Sunday
As she uncovers her family history - including previously unknown Jewish ancestry - she meditates on the nature of marriage, fidelity and familial love, while seeking an affinity with the natural world and solace in a love of gardening inherited from her mother
Observer
A mind-altering journey that challenges biological determination, while rooting family in the daily practice of care and love... moving
Esquire
A moving account of a daughter's struggle to know her mother
Washington Post