Unearthing

<p><b>A <i>STYLIST</i> BEST NON-FICTION PICK</b></p><p><b>'A lucid and compelling memoir of family rupture and repair' </b>Sue Stuart-Smith, author of <i> The Well Gardened Mind</i></p><p><b>'Gorgeous and generous . . . a mind-altering journey that challenges biological determination' </b>Naomi Klein, <i>Esquire</i></p><p>Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies, a DNA test reveals that they were not biologically related. All at once Kyo's silver-haired mother becomes a mystery to her; she holds the story of a secret buried for half a century, but her memories are fading, and words are failing them both.</p><p>Maclear does not speak Japanese and so to unearth the past, she must turn to her mother's second fluent tongue: gardening. <i>Unearthing </i>is a memoir written in the wild green language of soil, seed, leaf and mulch. With exquisite illustrations by the author, this is a tribute to the ineradicable love between a mother and daughter.</p>