A review by ehmannky
Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past by Jessica J. Lee

informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Lee weaves her familial and personal history with that of the natural history of Taiwan. Interspersing the two, you begin to see the ways that colonization plays a role in disrupting both the natural world and the people who live in it. It's a slow-paced book, and I think that you should plan on giving yourself a few weeks to really shift through everything covered in this book. I also think that this book is more heavy on memoir than the natural world. I don't think that's a negative thing, I just think that if you're going into this with an idea it's going to be a traditional nature book, you're going to be disappointed. It's gorgeously written, with the tone being a kind of reflective longing for belonging and a desire to be home, even if home is nebulous and exists in primarily in memory. 
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