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and the beloved author of the bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass

known for The Wild Places

“This beautiful volume uses simple

After starting with the secret workings of a tree

Red Pockets : An Offering and prolonging the process ofFollowing a record year of wildfires, Alice Mah returns to her familys rice village in South China, and discovers that her ancestors are almost forgotten, and there are no tombs left to sweep. Instead, there are incalculable clan debts to be paid. Here Mah chronicles her journey from the rice villages of South China to her home in post industrial England, through the Chinatowns of Western Canada where she grew up, to the isles and industry of Scotland