In Braiding Sweetgrass she brings together her scientific and Indigenous knowledge to share powerful ideas about the lessons we can glean from other living beings. Living in Syracuse, New York, she is a botanist and decorated professor, and also a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. In her daily life, Kimmerer straddles worlds that are traditionally kept separate. In fact, the writer’s insistence on bringing together seemingly oppositional forces might be what gives the book its remarkable power. It’s noteworthy, then, that Braiding Sweetgrass, the 2013 New York Times bestselling book by Robin Wall Kimmerer, refuses to fit neatly into one particular box. Books, like many other aspects of life, tend to be forced into categories.
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