[10/15/24] Favero, Elissa: Children of Rivers and Trees

Newfound, paperback

Publication Date: October 15, 2024

Publisher Marketing: Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian weaves natural and family histories of Scotland and south central Montana with Indigenous histories, languages of science and of women, memories of Catholic childhoods, fragments of poetry, and songs of lament and of praise. Proceeding through the alphabet and experimenting with forms that call to mind displacement and settlement, plant growth, taxonomies, and genealogies, writer Elissa Favero reckons with her family's immigrations West and the burdens and gifts of inheritance as she seeks a place she can call home.