We can’t wait to see you at our first Book Group of 2024! Braiding Sweetgrass was one of our 2023 best sellers and for good reason, it’s also a staff pick! Read all, part or even none of the book you are welcome and wanted here!
A New York Times Bestseller
A Washington Post Bestseller
Named a “Best Essay Collection of the Decade” by Literary Hub
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Book is not included, but White Rabbit would love for you to use the public library or purchase from an indie! Water and bathrooms are available, and Black Ink will be open for treats or drinks if you so desire–thank you for not bringing in outside food.
It helps us when you purchase attendance in advance, to make sure we have enough for a group! If there are only one or two attendees on the day before the book group, we will post on Facebook and our website that it has been cancelled. We will return your admission fee or push it forward to the next one (this doesn’t happen often!), whichever is best for you.
If the participation cost ($4.99) is not in your budget, please message us for a link to participate for free – no one will know the difference. Yay reading!
About the Book:
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.