Read Terrain‘s latest review: “Lessons in Quotidian Honesty: A Review of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden“
“Soil, then, is a book about inclusivity: part memoir, part poetry, part essay, part history, part lessons on race, and part photography. Dungy cites her journal entries, emails, and aspects of her thought process. She redefines what ‘nature’ means by broadening her environment to encompass other writers, her human and nonhuman neighbors, her family, her community, her readers.”
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