A review by frankie_s
City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest by Sophie Cunningham

4.0

I loved this book, I thought it was beautiful, but it did leave me with a bonedeep sadness (for very legit reasons). Like Sophie Cunningham, our treatment of old growth forests is the thing that makes me lose hope the most, and I found the spotlight on this and our relationship with animals and trees difficult. I found myself squinting to read it at times because it hurt to look at. The stories she is telling here about grief (in the traditional sense, since she was dealing with the death of both her fathers) and the kind of shadowloss (concept from Cole Imperi) brought about by extinction and destruction of habitat, are incredibly important. I appreciate this work so much. Having written this review I'm going to change my review from 4 stars to 5 stars, since the only thing that is stopping me from doing so is that it made me sad, which is not the author's fault of course.