DISPERSALS

HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024 An invigorating cross pollination of memoir and natural history both beautifully phrased and delicately structured this book deserves your time and attention Cal Flyn author of Islands of AbandonmentBorn in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father Jessica J Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion In Dispersals she examines the echoes and counterpoints in the migration of plants and people and the language we use to describe them Combining memoir history and scientific research Lee questions how both plants and people come to belong or not and reveals how all our futures are more entwined than we might imagine Contemplative elegant New Statesman At once expansive and intimate and most of all gorgeously written This is a book I will return to often over the course of my life Nina Mingya Powles author of Small Bodies of Water