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Unearthed : on race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong

Ratinon, Claire, author

2022

Overview

The story of how Claire Ratinon found belonging through falling in love with growing plants. For years her troubled relationship with the land of her birth left her feeling unwanted, but reconnecting with nature allowed her finally to put down roots. Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire grew up feeling cut off from the natural world. She lived in cities, reluctant to be outdoors and stuck with the belief that success and status could fill the space where belonging was absent. Through learning the practice of growing food, she unpicked her beliefs about who she ought to be. Over her first year living in the English countryside and with the first vegetable patch of her own, she finds a pathway back to nature's embrace. And through growing the food of Mauritius, recording her parents' stories and exploring the history of the island, she also strengthens her connection to her homeland.

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Subject: Ratinon, Claire. / Identity (Psychology) / Gardening Therapeutic use. / Nature Therapeutic use. / Gardeners Great Britain. / Psychology. / gardening / gardeners
• ISBN: 9781784744472

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
BF697 .R38 2022	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE