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My City Highrise Garden Hardcover – March 31, 2017
Susan Brownmiller (Author)
Gardening on rooftops, balconies, and terraces is a popular trend. After thirty-five years of experience, Susan Brownmiller writes with honesty and humor about her oasis twenty floors above a Manhattan street.
She reports the catastrophes: losing daytime access during building-wide renovations; assaults from a mockingbird during his mating season. And the joys: a peach tree fruited for fifteen years; the windswept birches lasted for twenty-five. Butterflies and bees pay annual visits. She pampers a buddleia, a honeysuckle, roses, hydrangeas, and more. Her adventures celebrate the tenacity of nature, inviting readers to marvel at her garden’s resilience, and her own.
Enhanced by over thirty color photographs, this passionate account of green life in a gritty, urban environment will appeal to readers and gardeners wherever they dwell.
Susan Brownmiller is a feminist journalist, activist, and best-selling author. Her most acclaimed title is Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. Her other books include, Femininity, Waverly Place, Seeing Vietnam, and In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution.
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