The Private Lives of Trees Skloot Rebecca A biography of two troublesome

A biography of two troublesome words

How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart is a collection about the ways in which heartbreak can fill a place and make it impossible to stay

Examples of this desertion are everywhere: the deceleration of social rhythms and psycho-deflation provoked by the traumatic experience of the pandemic

and the only one ever of African descent

and mattresses nailed over the windows

The Private Lives of Trees Skloot Rebecca A biography of two troublesomeVernica is late, and Julin is increasingly convinced she won''t ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as a literature professor, developing a novel about a man tending to a bonsai tree on the weekends. He is a narrator, an architect, a chronicler of other people''s stories. But as the night stretches on before him, and the hours pass with no sign of Vernica,