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Roots: about the interweaving of life and family secrets

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In her new novel, Canadian writer Kyo Maclear, author of several children's books and the ornithological autofiction Birds, Art, Life (2017), continues to explore the boundary between nature and culture, placing the private history of her family at the center of her fictional narrative. Three months after her father's death, she takes a DNA test and learns that he was not her biological relative. Her mother, an immigrant from Japan, remains silent, either unable to find the right words or unwilling to stir up the past. In an attempt to understand her mother, who is passionate about gardening, the heroine turns to the world of flowers and plants. Maclear takes an imaginary journey through the gardens of her life, following the Japanese calendar, which is divided not into seasons, but into twenty-four small seasons - sekki: pure light, cold dew, grain rains ... - in order to find a common language that will help not only unravel the family secret, but also find answers to more serious questions: what is kinship and what does it mean to be a family?
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