{"product_id":"poppy-state-a-labyrinth-of-plants-and-a-story-of-beginnings","title":"Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCreep\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e comes a powerful book by a writer at the peak of her powers‚Äîat once a love letter to California and a literary tour de force that tells the story of resilience and reclamation through a relationship with plants, memory, myth, and indigenous knowledge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Myriam Gurba has lived in California her entire life, with its plants and soils, forests and ecology, immersing herself in the language of the landscape as refracted through the languages and memories of her ancestors. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePoppy State,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e California plants serve as structural anchors in a wildly inventive work of narrative nonfiction that is part botanical criticism, part personal storytelling, and part study of place. The reader is invited to commune with California with Gurba as their guide, ushered through a compendium of anecdotes, reminiscences, utterances, lists, incantations, newspaper articles, and other ephemera.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through the stories of these plants she comes to a new understanding of what occurs in the cultivation of a soul. Gurba learns if she can care for her body as she does her plants, her soul can thrive‚Äîlike the California poppy on her kitchen windowsill. And through walks in the Angeles National Forest, she visits oaks, crows, elderberries, and sycamores, while foraging for acorns, flowers, and berries to adorn her altar at home. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePoppy State\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a riveting tour de force.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúThe mother of intersectional Latinx identity.‚Äù ‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Scorchingly good.\"‚ÄîCheryl Strayed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‚ÄúThe most fearless writer in America.‚Äù ‚ÄîLuis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A truly distinctive, authentic, and dynamic literary voice. . . Myriam Gurba is one of our great American intellectuals.\" ‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Timber Press (OR)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50214289146141,"sku":"9781643265148","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781643265148.jpg?v=1754063712","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/poppy-state-a-labyrinth-of-plants-and-a-story-of-beginnings","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}