bAn exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's iBraiding Sweetgrassi and Annie Dillard's iPilgrim at Tinker Creekib pbSumana Roy has written--grown--a radiant and wondrous book.--Robert Macfarlane, author of iThe Old Ways A Journey on Footib pbBeautiful. . . . Roy weaves together science, nature, personal narrative, literature, sociology, and more to keep the reader turning pages--and to turn us all into tree-lovers.--Kateri Kramer, bibThe Rumpusbi pbA iPublishers Weeklyi Holiday Gift Guide 2021 selectionb p I was tired of speed. I wanted to live to tree time. So writes Sumana Roy at the start of iHow I Became a Treei, her captivating, adventurous, and self-reflective vision of what it means to be human in the natural world. p Drawn to trees' wisdom, their nonviolent way of being, their ability to cope with loneliness and pain, Roy movingly explores the lessons that writers, painters, photograph