The day Roe v. Wade was overturned, Amber Stewart was watching her first tomato plants sprout in her brand new garden. A year and a half later, she and her wife had left America entirely.
In the Garden: An Almanac for Uprooting is a lyrical memoir-in-essays about exile, belonging, and the stubborn act of planting a life somewhere new - this time, in Montevideo, Uruguay, an unexpected haven for queer Americans in exile.