A review by emcgillivray
How to Make a Plant Love You: Cultivate Green Space in Your Home and Heart by Summer Rayne Oakes

3.0

Oakes' meditation on plants has some lovely writing and sentiments about looking differently at plants and how we humans interact with them. However, she seemingly always keeps the reader at arm's length. Oakes shares more about the struggles of others (through submitted takeaways from other plant enthusiasts) than anything of herself to connect with the topic. I don't think she needed some tell-all, but even the brief parts about her struggle to move from country to Brooklyn were somewhat shallow.