Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past by Jessica J. Lee is a heartfelt, intelligent and moving memoir about the Chinese side of her family – and the dislocations and struggles they have faced in mainland China, the ROC (Taiwan) and Canada.
Lee marshals both the political, social, and especially the natural history of Taiwan to tell the story of the fractures within her family. Like so many people living in the shadow of the twentieth century and its upheavals, Lee struggles to make sense of a world that is gone.
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