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My Wild Garden: Notes from a Writer's Eden

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Meir Shalev may not be a household name, but in Israel he is a beloved novelist. This is his story about the garden he loves in Israel's Jezreel Valley where he grows just about everything and delights in the universal appeal of getting his hands dirty and making a connection to the earth. With wonderful illustrations, it feels like a great gift for a gardener, but the writing itself, often funny, is what readers will really dig.

A colorfully illustrated round of the season in the garden of the best-selling novelist, memoirist, and champion putterer with a wheelbarrow

On the perimeter of Israel’s Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel mountains rising up in the west, Meir Shalev has a beloved garden, “neither neatly organized nor well kept,” as he cheerfully explains. Often covered in mud and scrapes, Shalev cultivates both nomadic plants and “house dwellers,” using his own quirky techniques. He extolls the virtues of the...

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