A review by officialgrittynhl
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

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2.5

The general consensus seems to be Simard is not an effective writer. I really wanted to like this book, but I found it quite boring. It needed to be more explicitly marketed as an autobiography. I didn't know the personal cost to Simard for her discovery and I believe her life story does deserve to be held in books and by readers. I really wish she would have written more about indigenous concepts before the last chapter. I do love the allegory of Simard herself as a mother tree - although that was never explicitly mentioned and I believe she would have benefited from a straightforward comparison to herself as a mother tree at least once in the book. She has a powerful and moving story. Most people seem to find her description of her experiments boring, but I found it more interesting and approachable on audiobook. It was something I liked best about it, despite not enjoying the narration or writing much.

Much respect to Simard, her work, her life, and her story. 
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