Root Work

Jason Allen-Paisant is featured in an interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs for the Los Angeles Review of Books, discussing his new memoir The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams.

“When I first had the impulse to write this book, I realized that the visceral sensation of feeling you are a relative to a piece of land was one I had grown unfamiliar with, lost in the vagaries of my migrations away from the place of my earliest years.”

Read the full interview here.