Uprooting
From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Country Garden
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Uprooting
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What is home? It’s a question that has troubled Marchelle Farrell for her entire life. Years ago she left Trinidad and now, uprooted once again, she heads to the peaceful English countryside – the only Black woman in her village.
Drawn to her new garden, Marchelle begins to examine the complex and emotional question of home in the context of colonialism. As her relationship with the garden deepens, she discovers that her two conflicting identities are far more intertwined than she had realised. Full of hope and healing, Uprooting is a book about finding home where we least expect it, and which invites us to reconnect to the land – and ourselves.
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A beautiful memoir that shows how gardens can be a place to plant our most troubled feelings, to put down roots and to find peace (KATHERINE MAY)
In this beautiful book, Marchelle Farrell excavates the troubled legacies of colonialism and her own uprooting as she brings her Somerset garden back to life. Over the course of a year she pours love into the depleted soil and is rewarded with an abundance - of plants, insights and friendships - and, most importantly, a sense of finding home (LULAH ELLENDER)
Can the shifting sands upon which a diasporic life is built ever begin to settle? In her search for belonging, Farrell co-creates a garden and considers the wider cultural and political landscapes that have shaped her. A beautiful entanglement of soil and soul (JINI REDDY)
Uprooting is gorgeously written, a thoughtful and evocative meditation on gardening and making home. Marchelle took me right there into her garden with her words, and I shared the passing of seasons with her. Having been uprooted and rooted several times, I admired the love and generosity in Marchelle's words. For anyone who has searched for home, this will feel comforting and reassuring (DR PRAGYA AGARWAL, author of (M)OTHERHOOD and HYSTERICAL)
This is a cracking, glistening, important book that will change how we speak of gardens, land and identity in myriad ways. A story of becoming and belonging; of building a safe, beautiful life as a means of digging up the chains that colonialism has tried to keep our world bound by. A telling of a woman, of a mother, a gardener, a writer, an activist. A book that reminds us to stand tall in our own truths, to listen and to look, that helps us remember how much it means to write down these things that matter so much. This stunning book records the poetry of being alive at a time unlike any other. It is an exquisite love letter to kith, and to kin and to ki. More than anything it is a rallying call; imploring us to reshape what it means to inhabit a place; showing us so many ways that we might make home- side by side-on this planet that Marchelle has written of so gorgeously (KERRI NI DOCHARTAIGH)
Marchelle Farrell paints a living, breathing portrait of her home(s), both distant and near, real and imagined. She wills us to look closer, not just at the garden's present but also its past and its imagined future, uncovering an intricate root system of memories and migration lines. Written with shimmering detail, this memoir feels in deep conversation with other groundbreaking writers on growing and belonging such as Robin Wall Kimmerer and Jamaica Kincaid. Farrell's writing allows us to see plants as vessels of memory and history, plants as kin (NINA MINGYA POWLES)
Uprooting is at once tender and direct - as lyrical in its descriptions of home landscapes as it is scathing on the still-living legacies of colonisation. Farrell has given us a profoundly honest portrait of plants, place, and the shifting of spirit wrought by migration (JESSICA J LEE)
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