"When Camille moved with her husband and daughter to Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2013, the community held restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Camille employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as a metaphor for how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet, and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it. Definitive and singular, Soil functions at the nexus of nature writing and environmental justice to encourage readers to recognize the relationship between the peoples of the African diaspora and the land on which they live, and to understand that home is wherever soil rests beneath their feet." -- Book flap.
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