a rootbound plant needs space to grow Gerry Chow Bear and his adventures provide

Bear and his adventures provide a much-needed example of how to have fun by yourself and explore the wonderful world around you

and the sardonic viewpoint of a cynical six-year-old ("I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family

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Shines down on the half room

a Doug Wright Award nominee)

a rootbound plant needs space to grow Gerry Chow Bear and his adventures provideBy Stacey Zhu. Published by Field Mouse Press. Softcover, 96 pages, Colour, 2025. In this deeply intimate collection, Stacey Zhu combs through the clues left behind by romance, lust, family, and melancholia to answer a difficult but human question what is love? What she finds in a root bound plant needs space to grow distinctly captures the paradoxes of love and acceptance in human life, and in our reading, we are forced to reckon with our own