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Zusatztext "Ms. Kassinger's writing is chatty and intimate! but she has clearly done her library research." Informationen zum Autor Ruth Kassinger is the author of Paradise Under Glass , as well as a number of award-winning science and history books for young adults. She has written for the Washington Post , the Chicago Tribune , Health magazine, Science Weekly , and other publications. Klappentext Ruth Kassinger was at an emotional crossroads. Confronted with the death of a beloved sister, her children’s departure for college, and her own recent battle with breast cancer, she was searching for a way forward. Then one cold, gray evening, she wandered into the U.S. Botanic Garden’s conservatory—and a dream was born. Dazzled by the vast and dense tangle of greenery, Kassinger decided to create a verdant sanctuary in her own home, even though the sum total of her previous indoor gardening experience was one neglected houseplant at the top of her basement stairs. In Paradise Under Glass, Ruth chronicles her journey from brown thumb to green, while sharing the knowledge and insights that creating and sustaining her fabulous garden has bestowed—lessons of loss and letting go, nurturing and rebirth, challenge and change, love and serenity. Zusammenfassung Paradise Under Glass is a witty and absorbing memoir about one woman’s unlikely desire to build, stock, and tend a small conservatory in her suburban Maryland home. Ruth Kassinger’s wonderful story of the unique way she chose to cope with the profound changes in her life—a book that will delight readers of Eat, Pray, Love and I Feel Bad About My Neck —is interwoven with the fascinating history of conservatories from the Renaissance orangeries to the glass palaces of Kew.
