{"product_id":"the-weeds-9781250321770","title":"The Weeds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Best Book of the Year at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Must Read at \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGarden \u0026amp; Gun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[A] lyrical incisive novel . . . [about] a changing climate, the invisibility of women's work, and the perseverance of unofficial histories.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Katy Simpson Smith's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Weeds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, two women, connected across time, edge toward transgression in pursuit of their desires.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, signed up to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for a scientific agenda and a direction of her own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1854, a woman pushes through the jungle of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. As punishment for her misbehavior, she has been indentured to the English botanist Richard Deakin, for whom she will compile a flora. She is a thief, and she must find new ways to use her hands. If only the woman she loves weren't on a boat, with a husband. But love isn't always possible. She logs 420 species. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough a list of seemingly minor plants and their uses--medical, agricultural, culinary--these women calculate intangible threats: a changing climate, the cost of knowledge, and the ways repeated violence can upend women's lives. They must forge their own small acts of defiance and slip through whatever cracks they find. How can anyone survive? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLush, intoxicating, and teeming with mischief, Katy Simpson Smith's \u003ci\u003eThe Weeds\u003c\/i\u003e is a tense, mesmerizing page-turner about science and survival, the roles women are given and have taken from them, and the lives they make for themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250321770\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Katy Simpson Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43643994374325,"sku":"9781250321770","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_762b62af-6d22-48b6-a37b-76c196732ddb.jpg?v=1708445665","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-weeds-9781250321770","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}