E-Books →Unearthed Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden

As Risen beats back the bushes to unveil the garden's mysteries, her mother has a stroke and develops dementia.On one of her last visits home, she discovers an envelope of yellowed documents that helps her piece together some of her parents' unknown story.
Uprooted from the Ukraine to work in Nazi Germany during the Second World War, her father and mother met and married in a Displaced Persons camp before emigrating to Edmonton. They never discussed their troubled past.Her father shut himself into a safe, silent world and spoke few words to Alex during his lifetime.Her mother sought refuge in her garden amidst her vegetables, flowers and fruit trees.
As Risen toils in her own garden, lifelong resentments and misunderstandings are replaced with memories and connections to her parents. Organized around various flowers, trees and shrubs that evoke particular memories,Unearthedis an affecting account of tangled family relationships, reconciliation and the healing power of nature.