Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts
Written by Jessica J. Lee
Narrated by Nancy Wu
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A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew.
Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall. Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island. Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities.
Two Trees Make a Forest is a genre-shattering book encompassing history, travel, nature, and memoir, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories.
Jessica J. Lee
Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author and environmental historian. Her first book, Turning: A Swimming Memoir, was published by Virago in 2017 and named among the best books of the year by both Canadian newspaper the National Post and German newspaper Die Zeit. She has a PhD in Environmental History and Aesthetics and completed her dissertation on the history of Hampstead Heath. She was Writerin-Residence at the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology in Berlin from 2017–2018 and has written for BBC Radio 4, TLS and MUNCHIES, among others. Her second book, Two Trees Make a Forest: A story of memory, migration, and Taiwan, will be published in 2019 by Virago. Jessica lives in Berlin.
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