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Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
Jeff Chu
Hardback: Convergent, 2025
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Good Soil centers itself deep into the things of the earth, and of what it means to simply be human in this place. Here, we learn to live in and embrace the bodies that are ours and ours alone; we lament the wrongs that have been done to us, as Chu so intimately accounts in a chapter entitled, “body,” and, if we’re lucky, we forget new ways forward. Of his own body, Chu writes, “This is the body with which I kneel in the garden to weed. This is the body that opens the plastic bags of rotting produce and stumbles toward the compost pile with the wheelbarrow. This is the body with which I strain against an uncooperative barn door” (156).
— Cara Meredith, from our review
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