In the Garden: An Almanac for Uprooting

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.

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"This is writing that earns its beauty honestly. Like the best spiritual autobiography, it refuses the comfort of resolution. Instead, it offers something rarer: the record of a self, a life, a country, being unmade and then slowly, tenderly, made anew." — Adrian Shirk, author of Heaven is a Place on Earth

"Beautifully captures the heartbreak when home is no longer home. Amber reminds us how to heal as she opens up to the gentle promise of a new culture, learning to live life tranquilo." — Antonia Peplinski, @Wisconsinitos on TikTok