{"product_id":"poppy-state","title":"Poppy State","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e• By \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMyriam Gurba\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRelease Date:\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOct 21, 2025\u003cbr\u003e• ISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e9781643265148\u003cbr\u003e• 256 Pages\u003cbr\u003e• \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eyriam Gurba has lived in California her entire life, with its plants and soils, forests and ecology, immersing herself in the language of the landscape as refracted through the languages and memories of her ancestors. In \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoppy State\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e California plants serve as structural anchors in a wildly inventive work of narrative nonfiction that is part botanical criticism, part personal storytelling, and part study of place. The reader is invited to commune with California with Gurba as their guide, ushered through a compendium of anecdotes, reminiscences, utterances, lists, incantations, newspaper articles, and other ephemera.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the stories of these plants she comes to a new understanding of what occurs in the cultivation of a soul. Gurba learns if she can care for her body as she does her plants, her soul can thrive—like the California poppy on her kitchen windowsill. And through walks in the Angeles National Forest, she visits oaks, crows, elderberries, and sycamores, while foraging for acorns, flowers, and berries to adorn her altar at home. \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePoppy State\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a riveting tour de force.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43285195718745,"sku":"978-1643265148","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0183\/6405\/files\/poppystate.jpg?v=1777928474","url":"https:\/\/shop.givingtons.com\/products\/poppy-state","provider":"Givington's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}