Two Trees Make a Forest

Two Trees Make a Forest is a travel memoir by British Canadian author Jessica J. Lee. In it she describes finding a trove of letters written by her grandfather, and how it leads her to travel to her mother's and grandfather's home of Taiwan. In its review the Los Angeles Review of Books described the travel portion of the book as mirroring Lee's journey of self-discovery. Its review calls Lee's writing "poetic and emotive" and says her "elegance of language is ever present in the work". The book won the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

Two Trees Make a Forest

Two Trees Make a Forest is a travel memoir by British Canadian author Jessica J. Lee. In it she describes finding a trove of letters written by her grandfather, and how it leads her to travel to her mother's and grandfather's home of Taiwan. In its review the Los Angeles Review of Books described the travel portion of the book as mirroring Lee's journey of self-discovery. Its review calls Lee's writing "poetic and emotive" and says her "elegance of language is ever present in the work". The book won the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.