Unearthing

A STYLIST BEST NON-FICTION PICK''A lucid and compelling memoir of family rupture and repair'' Sue Stuart-Smith, author of The Well Gardened Mind''Gorgeous and generous . . . a mind-altering journey that challenges biological determination'' Naomi Klein, EsquireThree 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.Maclear does not speak Japanese and so to unearth the past, she must turn to her mother''s second fluent tongue: gardening. Unearthing 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.