Jessica J. Lee | CBC Books - Action News
Home WebMail Thursday, November 14, 2024, 01:16 AM | Calgary | 6.7°C | Regions Advertise Login | Our platform is in maintenance mode. Some URLs may not be available. |
Canada Reads

Jessica J. Lee

Author of Two Trees Make a Forest, championed by Scott Helman.

Author of Two Trees Make a Forest, championed by Scott Helman

headshot of a British Canadian Taiwanese person with long black hair in front of a cherry blossom tree.
Jessica J. Lee is the author of the memoir Two Trees Make a Forest. (Ricardo A. Rivas)

Scott Helman is championingTwo Trees Make a Forestby Jessica J. Lee onCanada Reads2021.

Canada Readswill take place March 8-11.The debateswill be hosted byAli Hassanandwill be broadcast onCBC Radio One,CBC TV,CBC Gemand onCBC Books.

About Jessica J. Lee

Jessica J. Lee is a British Canadian Taiwanese author and environmental historian. She wonthe 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the 2020 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literatureand the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award. She is the author of two books of nature writing: Turning and Two Trees Make a Forest. Lee has a PhD in environmental history and aesthetics and was the writer-in-residence at the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology in Berlin from 20172018. Leeis the founding editor of The Willowherb Review and a researcher at the University of Cambridge. She currently lives in London. (From Hamish Hamilton)

Books by Jessica J. Lee

Interviews with Jessica J. Lee

In her memoir Two Trees Make a Forest, Canadian writer and environmental historian Jessica J. Lee returns to her mother's homeland of Taiwan to understand the landscape that shaped her family - and in turn, shapes her. The book intertwines her grandparents' histories, the political history of Taiwan and the island's geological history. She speaks with Chattopadhyay about home, multiplicity and belonging.For more, visit: www.cbc.ca/1.5729728

TheCanada Reads2021 contenders

Add some good to your morning and evening.

Sign up for our newsletter. Well send you book recommendations, CanLit news, the best author interviews on CBC and more.

...

The next issue of CBC Books newsletter will soon be in your inbox.

Discover all CBC newsletters in theSubscription Centre.opens new window

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Google Terms of Service apply.