"A book exploring the emerging science on plant intelligence, uncovering plants' complex and unimaginable capabilities and calling into question what we consider to be conscious agents in the natural world"--

"Iris Flynn is an acerbic, self-sufficient seventy-three-year-old widow...Her composed and simplified existence is disrupted when her son Frank lands on her doorstep after his rental home is destroyed in a wildfire...Soon, news from her estranged family in Maine forces everyone out of their comfort zone. Iris convinces Frank...to travel with her to the potato farm from where she made a quick getaway fifty years earlier, unleashing a funny and poignant...