Jessica J. Lee

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.

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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)

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Books by Jessica J. Lee

Interviews with Jessica J. Lee

The Sunday Magazine27:16Jessica J. Lee shares her family's turbulent history in Taiwan's lush landscape

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

• Rosey Edeh championsThe Midnight Bargainby C.L. Polk
• Scott Helman championsTwo Trees Make a Forestby Jessica J. Lee
• Devery Jacobs championsJonny Appleseedby Joshua Whitehead
• Paul Sun-Hyung Lee championsHenchby Natalie Zina Walschots
• Roger Mooking championsButter Honey Pig Breadby Francesca Ekwuyasi