{"product_id":"the-gospel-of-trees-a-memoir-paperback","title":"The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eApricot Irving\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn an \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"eye-opening memoir\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"as beautiful as it is discomfiting\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), award-winning writer Apricot Irving untangles her youth on a missionary compound in Haiti.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eApricot Irving grew up as a missionary's daughter in Haiti. Her father was an agronomist, a man who hiked alone into the deforested hills to preach the gospel of trees. Her mother and sisters spent their days in the confines of the hospital compound they called home. As a child, this felt like paradise to Irving; as a teenager, it became a prison. Outside of the walls of the missionary enclave, Haiti was a tumult of bugle-call bus horns and bicycles that jangled over hard-packed dirt, road blocks and burning tires triggered by political upheaval, the clatter of rain across tin roofs, and the swell of voices running ahead of the storm. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Poignant and explosive, Irving weaves a portrait of a missionary family that is unflinchingly honest: her father's unswerving commitment to his mission, her mother's misgivings about his loyalty, the brutal history of colonization. Drawing from research, interviews, and journals--her parents' as well as her own--this memoir in many voices evokes a fractured family finding their way to kindness through honesty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Told against the backdrop of Haiti's long history of intervention, it grapples with the complicated legacy of those who wish to improve the world, while bearing witness to the defiant beauty of an undefeated country. A lyrical meditation on trees and why they matter, loss and privilege, love and failure. \u003ci\u003eThe Gospel of Trees\u003c\/i\u003e is a \"lush, emotional debut...A beautiful memoir that shows how a family altered by its own ambitious philanthropy might ultimately find hope in their faith and love for each other, and for Haiti.\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47585810448637,"sku":"9781451690460","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/eHlJZWRPZk9TWkxBdURWRUtZcW8vZz09.webp?v=1779893556","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-gospel-of-trees-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}