"The author laces her histories with a subtle and personal optimism. Just as those plants replanted far from home, we can adapt to transition, dispersal, and recollection. An insightful meditation on nature and identity within 'a world in motion" - Kirkus Review

"Lee does a masterful job of blending personal reflection with natural and political history, and her prose is crystalline . . . This deserves a wide audience" - Publishers Weekly

"One of the most interesting and celebrated contemporary writers of nature, identity and place . . . her work deftly interweaves personal memoir and family history with botany, cultural criticism and first-hand observations of the natural world" - The Berliner

"Richly textured . . . These essays critically probe the native/nonnative paradigm of invasive-species ecology. Lee’s voice will stay with readers long after they finish this book" - Library Journal (starred review)

"[A] lyrical essay collection . . . Lee writes intimately about her own oscillating cravings for movement and rootedness . . . Dispersals shows us that we cannot view the trajectory of a plant without bumping into trajectories of human power" - Scientific American

"Lee evokes a centuries-long history of border crossings — by people and by plants — to throw into question what it means to really belong, love, and protect, and what our collective future might hold on a planet forever evolving in the wake of trans-continental migration" - Literary Hub

"Exquisite, haunting . . . Lee continues her insistent, clear-eyed quest for nourishment and vitality, even when both are complicated, and encourages readers to do the same" - Shelf Awareness