Two Trees Make a Forest

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`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, the means of their bridging - and finding a home in language' - Robert Macfarlane Taiwan is an island of extremes: towering mountains, lush forests and domesticated flatlands. Between shifting tectonic plates and a history rife with tension, the geographical and political landscape is ever evolving. After unearthing a hidden memoir of her grandfather's life, Jessica J. Lee seeks to piece together the fragments of her family's history as they moved from China to Taiwan, and then on to Canada. But as she navigates the forests and mountains of Taiwan, Lee finds herself having to traverse fissures in language, memory, and history, to find the stories her family left behind. Part-nature writing, part-biography, Two Trees Make a Forest traces the natural and human stories that shaped an island and a family.