The Land Is Holy
- 2024 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, Essays (Adult Nonfiction)
The stork in cyclical rotation, the bitter shiba, the prickly sweet Sabra, the blooming Lindens form larger-than-life metaphors in these essays. keim writes, “I want to believe that we carry, in our bodies and bones and blood, the particles of the leaves and flowers that saw our lineages past. Kin.” In turn they urge us to find kinship with the world that wants us alive and buoyant.