The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir

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The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir

In an â€œeye-opening memoirâ€ (People) â€œas beautiful as it is discomfitingâ€ (The New Yorker), award-winning writer Apricot Irving untangles her youth on a missionary compound in Haiti.

Apricot Irving grew up as a missionaryâ€™s daughter in Haiti. Her father was an agronomist, a man who hiked alone into the deforested hills to preach the gospel of trees. Her mother and sisters spent their days in the confines of the hospital compound they called home. As a child, this felt like paradise to Irving; as a teenager, it became a prison. Outside of the walls of the missionary enclave, Haiti was a tumult of bugle-call bus horns and bicycles that jangled over hard-packed dirt, road blocks and burning tires triggered by political upheaval, the clatter of rain across tin roofs, and the swell of voices running ahead of the storm.

Poignant and explosive, Irving weaves a portrait of a missionary family that is unflinchingly honest: her fatherâ€™s unswerving commitment to his mission, her motherâ€™s misgivings about his loyalty, the brutal history of colonization. Drawing from research, interviews, and journalsâ€”her parentsâ€™ as well as her ownâ€”this memoir in many voices evokes a fractured family finding their way to kindness through honesty.

Told against the backdrop of Haitiâ€™s long history of intervention, it grapples with the complicated legacy of those who wish to improve the world, while bearing witness to the defiant beauty of an undefeated country. A lyrical meditation on trees and why they matter, loss and privilege, love and failure. The Gospel of Trees is a â€œlush, emotional debut...A beautiful memoir that shows how a family altered by its own ambitious philanthropy might ultimately find hope in their faith and love for each other, and for Haiti.â€ (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781451690460
ReleaseDate 2019-03-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451690460

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781451690460
ReleaseDate	2019-03-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451690460

The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir

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