BRAIDING SWEETGRASS with ROBIN WALL KIMMERER
Into every book there is a portal, an opening that beckons. In Braiding Sweetgrass , every sentence is a portal, so finely crafted that we do not notice the frame of the door, only the entrancing light that invites us in. No wonder so many friends said to me in the last few years, “Page, you will love this book!” Thank you, Kathleen. Thank you, Julie. Thank you, Milkweed Editions, for sending the review copy. Thank you all. What I do here matters, writes Robin Wall Kimmerer. Everybody lives downstream. This one line epitomizes a major theme weaving in and out of Robin’s fine book. Published by Milkweed Editions in 2013, Braiding Sweetgrass is more than memoir, more than nature writing, more than one woman’s narrative. What I do here matters. The words echo. Each story – as it loops back to the story before, simultaneously sends out tendrils, rooting itself to the next story. We are reminded metaphorically and literally that what happens upstream sends ripples to all