Unearthed
Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden

It seems we are on a parallel path, my mother and I, of reliving the past – her in her memory and me in my research. Sadly, we each walk alone. As Unearthed opens, Alexandra Risen is saying goodbye to her father as he lays comatose in his hospital bed; noting the fact that in the twenty years she......more

This book was a really enjoyable read. It allowed me to reflect on my youth growing up with a backyard in Toronto that backed onto a ravine. I have come to the conclusion that Alexandra Risen bought a home that backs onto the Bayview extension or Rosedale Valley Road. Areas of Toronto which bring ba......more

This summer, my wife and I moved our family into a home enveloped by trees on an acre of land just a block off Roosevelt Road in a near Chicago suburb. So I wanted to love this book about a family moving into their own magical acre near downtown Toronto, and I like the meticulous way Risen approache......more

Really lovely.......more

I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. I like memoirs, I like gardens. It ought to be great. The premise of finding the reason her parents, especially her father, were cold and distant by making endless metaphors comparing her personal journey of her understanding to her garden-building proj......more