Jessica J. Lee
Highly commended for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2024
Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2025
Shortlisted for the ASLE-UKI Book Prize 2025
Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2025
"An invigorating cross-pollination of memoir and natural history, both beautifully phrased and delicately structured - this book deserves your time and attention" Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment
Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion.
In Dispersals, she examines the echoes and counterpoints in the migration of plants and people - and the language we use to describe them. Combining memoir, history and scientific research, Lee questions how both plants and people come to belong - or not - and reveals how all our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.
"Contemplative, elegant" New Statesman
"At once expansive and intimate, and most of all, gorgeously written. This is a book I will return to often over the course of my life" Nina Mingya Powles, author of Small Bodies of Water
| Title: | Dispersals : On Plants, Borders and Belonging |
| Author: | Jessica J. Lee |
| ISBN: | 9780241996881 |
| Format: | Paperback / softback |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Dimensions: | 197 x 130 x 21 mm |
| Publication Date: | 13 March, 2025 |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Weight: | 204 g |