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Little Seed

Wei Tchou

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#2142 of 3,809 books · #762 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2024).

Little Seed is an experimental memoir that braids together the narrative of the author's relationship with her brother and family with a deeply personal field guide to ferns. The chapters move associatively, commenting on each other indirectly and drawing out questions of assimilation, race, class, gender, nature and the general problem of being and knowing. When the author's brother has a psychotic break, the rigid structure of the book itself breaks apart and the protagonist adventures to the cloud forest of Oaxaca in order to truly live: to know the world by experiencing it rather than reading about it or following the direction of others. Some persistent themes throughout the book: What does it mean to be Chinese? What is love and how best to love? What really is a fern?

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Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-13
9781646053407
Topics
Family and mental illnessChinese American identityNature and ferns

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