Changing Hands Bookstore

FREE CHANGING HANDS BOOK CLUB
How to Change the World Book Club: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
6:30PM (8:30 ET) MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13

This event is free and open to the public. No registration required.

On the second Monday of each month, join Javelina CEO Catherine Alonzo in reading and discussing nonfiction books from the realms of economics, history, social justice, business, and more to learn how to make an impact in your community in our rapidly changing world. You'll get 20% off hardcover and 10% off paperback picks when you purchase the selection of the month at Changing Hands!

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This month the group discusses Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.


ABOUT THE BOOK

A New York Times Bestseller
A Washington Post Bestseller
Named a Best Essay Collection of the Decade by Literary Hub

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert).

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings--asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass--offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.