Caly's TOP 5in 2025 | Dispersals - Jessica J. Lee

Caly says... A beautiful exploration of the introspections of human movement and belonging and plant variety and migration. Through a complex entanglement of memoir, memory, biology and natural history Jessica J. Lee treats us to a truly wonderful set of reflective and informative essays! 

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Born 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.