Book Riot | 19.05.2026 17:08
When you send an unsolicited book of essays to a small nonprofit publisher, you’re probably not expecting it to become one of the biggest word-of-mouth sensations of the 21st century so far. But that’s the story behind today’s Zero to Well-Read subject, and no one was more surprised by this turn of events than its author. Jeff and Rebecca trace the Braiding Sweetgrass phenomenon and reflect on the ways Robin Wall Kimmerer blends Indigenous philosophy and practice with scientific knowledge to imagine new ways of living together and responding to environmental crises.