TWO TREES MAKE A FOREST

Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature, and the Banff Mountain Book Award for Adventure Travel. A Canada Reads finalist for 2021. A New Statesman Book of the Year and one of The Observer’s Best Books of 2019. One of Cosmopolitan’s Best Non-Fiction Books of 2020.

Praise for Two Trees Make a Forest:
“Lee combines a botanist’s precision with a poet’s eye and ear…one of the most exciting voices exploring landscape and identity today.” — The Times Literary Supplement

“Two Trees Make a Forest is a finely faceted meditation on memory, love, landscape — and finding a home in language. Its short, shining sections tilt yearningly towards one another; in form as well as content, this is a beautiful book about the distance between people and between places, and the means of their bridging.” — Robert Macfarlane

“Love is attention, as the saying goes, and in this, Lee’s memoir truly shines. A remarkable exercise in careful attention, be it to the nuances of language, the turns of colonial history, or a grandfather’s difficult-to-read handwriting, Two Trees Makes A Forest is a moving treatise on how to look closely and see truthfully, even as the fog rolls in.” — Rachel Heng, BOMB

“A subtle, powerful exploration of the relationship between people and place, and a luminous evocation of an extraordinary landscape.” — Melissa Harrison

“Two Trees Make a Forest takes a twisting path through mountain passes, over tree roots, by spoon billed birds and into a family's past. In this thoughtful memoir, Lee asks the reader to wonder, what makes a homeland? Is it language, family, landscape? I was left with a full heart and a longing to learn the name of each tree that lines my own past.” — Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

“A beautiful, fully-realised tribute to a family and a brave, diligent search for understanding in the mist.” — Amy Liptrot

“Both clear-eyed and tender hearted, Two Trees Make a Forest is a profound and gorgeously written meditation on the natural and familial environments that shape us. Jessica J Lee is a poetic talent keenly attentive to the mysterious and sublime.” — Sharlene Teo

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