{"id":595,"date":"2020-04-22T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=595"},"modified":"2020-05-12T20:39:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:39:39","slug":"online-book-talk-jessica-lee-two-trees-make-a-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/online-book-talk-jessica-lee-two-trees-make-a-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Online book talk: Jessica Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author and environmental historian Jessica J. Lee discussed her book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virago.co.uk\/titles\/jessica-j-lee\/two-trees-make-a-forest\/9780349011035\/\">Two Trees Make a Forest<\/a><\/em> (Virago Books, 2019) on Monday, 11 May, 16:00 European Central time in our Greenhouse book talk series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between tectonic plates and conflicting cultures, Taiwan is an island of extremes: high mountains, exposed flatlands, thick forests. After unearthing a hidden memoir of her grandfather\u2019s life, written on the cusp of his total memory loss, Jessica J Lee hunts his story, in parallel with exploring Taiwan, hoping to understand the quakes that brought her family from China, to Taiwan and Canada, and the ways in which our human stories are interlaced with geographical forces. Part-nature writing, part-biography,\u00a0<em>Two Trees Make a Forest<\/em>\u00a0traces the natural and human stories that shaped an island and a family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk: Jessica Lee\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/417764006?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"819\" height=\"512\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author and environmental historian Jessica J. Lee discussed her book Two Trees Make a Forest (Virago Books, 2019) on Monday, 11 May, 16:00 European Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booktalk","category-events"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Lee_cover.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}