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“Unrooted,” by Amanda Rizkalla
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In award-winning author Amanda Rizkalla’s sweetly surreal tale of a peripatetic tree, life is one long season of change.
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Shocked and disoriented by the killing of his mother and her conversion into plywood, the tree uproots himself and wanders the land in a sort of situationist dérive, exploring the nation’s parks, temporarily rooting himself by highways, wading across streams … until love in all its complications finds him, and he once again finds a reason to stay in place.
In award-winning author Amanda Rizkalla’s sweetly surreal tale of a peripatetic tree, life is one long season of change.
She loved him, too. She ate his leaves, his fruit. She climbed his branches when wild boar tumbled through the fields, ripping through the berry-shaped flowers with their hooves. She and Thomas slept in a bed he built for them using his own branches.
He gave. She received. And by receiving, she was giving him something, too, she reassured herself. Purpose.
Although their sex life was complicated, she soon got pregnant and gave birth to a small swarm of purple dragonflies.
“It was like millions of tiny little bubbles popping,” she said afterward.
Amanda Rizkalla is an incoming fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her work is published in No Tokens Journal, The Esthetic Apostle, and Archipelago. A graduate of Stanford University, she has been awarded grants, fellowships, and awards from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Kemper Knapp Graduate Fellowship, the Bocock/Guerard Fiction Prize, and the William Woo Award for Opinions Writing.
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