Book Riot | 17.09.2026 17:00
Tending the Vines explores the lives and histories of eight plants considered nonnative or invasive, using them as metaphors for the Black experience in America. Multi-disciplinary storyteller and environmental educator, Ashia S. Ajani brings a fresh perspective to ecological narratives while unpacking the complex rhetorical lives of plants that have been used as both ugly metaphors for Black incursion as well as powerful symbols for Black liberation.
