NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER โข NATIONAL BESTSELLER โข Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant lifeโbut it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist.
"Does for botany what Oliver Sacksโs essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gouldโs writings did for paleontology.โ โThe New York Times
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century
In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her fatherโs college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work โwith both the heart and the hands.โ She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in observing and protecting our environment.
Warm, luminous, compulsively readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates the mountains that we can move when love and work come together.