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File Size: 9090 KB
Print Length: 304 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (July 5, 2016)
Publication Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
ASIN: B011H55RS6
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Alex Risen’s Unearthed is a lovely memoir, full of detail and lively characterizations. She covers a lot of ground (literally), both in the restoration of the abandoned garden and in the trajectory of her life, mingling the two almost seamlessly. The unearthing of her parents’ mysterious Ukrainian past during WWII, even as her mother has become so senile as not to be able to answer the thousand questions Alex has, is powerfully moving. The restoration of her garden, then, becomes a metaphor for the discovery of her past and finally helps her to heal old wounds. I found some of the transitions a little wobbly, but her beautiful prose more than makes up for this.
As a lifelong gardener who also had a difficult relationship with her gardening mother, this book really hit quite a few chords. I appreciated her description of how gardening connected her to her past and future.
I was also inspired by Gordon Lightfoot!
Never have had descriptions done so well that I actually wanted to be in the garden especially after it was finished.
Discovery and restoration of an old garden, should be a fascinating story. Unfortunately this book fails to be fascinating. Practical information is lacking here. What is in abundance are attempts to make "profound and deep" connections with the earth. The author hired a guy who balances the earth's magnetism. That really puts most of what she says here into perspective.The book seems to be written in the same impulsive, leapfrog manner that she directs her attention to activities. One second we are making the garden look nice for her "blessing" event and digging up dead roses, and the next she is playing with clay found under a rose and taking a pottery class. We hear way too much about how her clay won't do, or maybe it will, or it is better than he thought at first. Not necessary detail. The focus of the book is constantly changing.So this wild ravine has weeds? The solution they picked was to power pump vast quantities of mulch????? Where on earth did she find her experts? Have you ever seen a wooded ravine where a thick layer of wood mulch blanketed the area naturally? And then they are shocked when it washes down hill.EVERYTHING seems to scare either the author or her "experts". Old wires and light fixtures are hardly a danger, unless they are still live. EASY to determine with a voltage sensor. If no longer connected, they don't have to be yanked out to make the area safe! One deer, doing nothing but lying down, is another very alarming happening! Wow. We hear a lot of unnecessary worry but little of interest.Why is there such a problem about her parent's past? How could she not be interested? She acts as if the found paperwork can somehow contaminate her. Her responses to too many things are "far out there".At the end, she suggests being careful when foraging for plants. If you aren't sure what a plant is, you might want to rub it on your skin. WHAT? Would it not be far more prudent to identify it FIRST? Picking and rubbing a leaf on your skin is an excellent way to give yourself a serious case of say, poison ivy. After touching it with your fingers, those fingers are likely to make contact to skin in many other places, before you get home or think to wash them!And even after slogging through to the end, we have zero idea of how the garden was restored, what lives there, how they maintain it. Just vague mentions of buckets of heavy things carried up and down the 81 steps. We have no idea what was actually done to save the failing pagoda. After hearing the foundation is sinking and powdered, the roof failing, the columns disintegrating, about all we learn is they chose black slate tiles and small white marble ones for the floor and removed some wood in the ceiling.The writing is very jumbled. Besides poorly interweaving the garden parts with her personal hangups, the present and the past keep mixing. The result is a book that is hard to read and not enjoyable.
Just as the author and her husband buy an acre property just outside downtown Toronto, her father dies. This doesn’t make much of a difference in Risen’s life; in her entire life he has hardly ever spoken to her. He didn’t ignore her; he would work on projects with her- silently. That was pretty much their only interaction. It wasn’t that he couldn’t speak; her parents had long, loud arguments all the time. Her mother, always working in the garden or putting food by, is now alone and getting fragile, and has always preferred Risen’s older sister; she also almost never spoke to her younger daughter. The restoration of their new house and property, a chunk of a former large estate, is narrated concurrently with Risen’s quest to understand her parents.The reason that the author was so taken by this rundown and overgrown piece of property is that it’s on a ravine and is like a piece of forest in the urban setting. As a child, she would escape into the forested ravine behind her house, spending hours there away from her parents, who apparently didn’t care that she was never home. It’s also a challenge, I suspect; if she can make this garden beautiful and orderly, maybe her gardener mother will finally think her worthy of love and attention. Sadly, over the ten years of so it takes to renovate the acre, her mother has a stroke and then develops dementia. Despite Risen’s insistence that she get on a plane and visit, she will never see this piece of property. But when the author and her sister clean out her mother’s place as she is moved to a home, they find a cache of old papers- papers that may hold some answers to her questions about her immigrant parent’s origins.I really felt for the author; like her, my now dead parents are a deep mystery. Unlike her, there is no folder of hints or clues, but her search for answers struck a chord with me. The urge to know where one came from is, I think, fairly universal, and to have parents who never speak of the past leaves a hole in one’s heart. I’m also an avid gardener, and would love to have a property with old oaks, a redwood, a spring fed pond, and an old falling down pagoda. I understand the amount of work it would take to bring a place like that back into orderliness, although I have no comprehension of the amount of money it took them with all that they hired to have done- had the concrete pagoda rebuilt, professional arborists, landscape designers, a pool installed- their place is the proverbial money pit.Risen does remember her mother’s lessons on wildcrafting; each chapter ends with a recipe or craft done with plants from the land. Risen also chronicles her son growing up; he’s not very much into gardening-he’s a computer kid- but he does enjoy the paths and the pond, wildlife, and some of the crafts. The garden provides them with ways to be closer.The story is bookended by deaths; the author’s father begins it and her mother’s ends it. Risen has not found the answers she wanted, but she has learned some of what made them who they were. And she feels they did, as my mother said she did, ‘the best they could’. I really liked the book, even though I found the author frustrating at times as she had moments of immaturity. I stayed up nights reading it, and thinking about it when I was out gardening.
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