{"id":62194,"date":"2021-11-11T22:17:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T22:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62194"},"modified":"2021-11-11T22:17:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T22:17:55","slug":"kinship-of-clover-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62194","title":{"rendered":"Kinship of Clover, a Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kinship of Clover, A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Red Hen Press<\/a>
\n2017-04-04
\n272 pages
\n5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781597093811<\/p>\n

Ellen Meeropol<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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He was nine when the vines first wrapped themselves around him and burrowed into his skin. Now a college botany major, Jeremy is desperately looking for a way to listen to the plants and stave off their extinction. But when the grip of the vines becomes too intense and Health Services starts asking questions, he flees to Brooklyn<\/a>, where fate puts him face to face with a group of climate-justice<\/a> activists who assure him they have a plan to save the planet, and his plants. As the group readies itself to make a big Earth Day<\/a> splash, Jeremy soon realizes these eco-terrorists\u2019 devotion to activism might have him\u2013and those closest to him\u2013tangled up in more trouble than he was prepared to face. With the help of a determined, differently abled flame from his childhood, Zoe; her deteriorating, once-rabble-rousing grandmother; and some shocking and illuminating revelations from the past, Jeremy must weigh completing his mission to save the plants against protecting the ones he loves, and confront the most critical question of all: how do you stay true to the people you care about while trying to change the world?<\/p>\n

From the author of House Arrest<\/em><\/a> and On Hurricane Island<\/em><\/a> comes a thrilling new activist novel that begs the question, \u201cHow far is too far?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kinship of Clover, A Novel Red Hen Press 2017-04-04 272 pages 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 9781597093811 Ellen Meeropol He was nine when the vines first wrapped themselves around him and burrowed into his skin. Now a college botany major, Jeremy is desperately looking for a way to listen to the plants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,20],"tags":[6675,32344,596,32341],"class_list":["post-62194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-brooklyn","tag-ellen-meeropol","tag-new-york-city","tag-red-hen-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62196,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62194\/revisions\/62196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}