Hope Jahren is a geobiologist, a three-time Fulbright award recipient, and a tenured professor at the University of Hawaii. Beyond her scientific distinctions, she is also a lover of leaves, and of trees; in possession of a great gift for writing and a wild and wonderfully alive sense of humor, something, it turns out in the 20ish-years of adventures she takes us on in “Lab Girl,” that it never hurts having with her to fall back on.
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my q&a with ‘lab girl’ hope jahrenQ. Thank you for this exhilarating book, Hope Jahren. I’m not even sure how to say what it’s about without sounding all woo-woo and saying, “It’s about life.” It’s about your life, and about life on earth, too. What’s it about?
A. I like the woo-woo. [Laughter.] Of all the different descriptions I’ve heard people offer, I think that hits about as close to the heart as you can get it. It’s everything I am, and like to think about. And like every woman—and that includes both my interests and what consumes me in my labor every day, and what consumes me at home, and the friendships that created me, and the goals that I have
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