“A fresh, intricately-written and dreamlike novel about love, creativity and the natural world.”
--Jane Borodale, author of The Knot

"Leafskin expands our understanding of inheritance...Miranda Schmidt tells Jo's story through a prism queerly, challenging narrow ideas of what one person can inherit from an other—be they lover, tree, mythical creature, or element. It's into these intricate webs of relation that Leafskin settles like love, always shifting with the light, sometimes familiar, sometimes scary, sometimes unrecognizable, until we realize we've been living inside it all along."
--Callum Angus, author of A Natural History of Transition 

“In Leafskin, Miranda Schmidt’s remarkable first novel, short chapters as lyrical as prose poems weave and twine to probe what it means to make something grow in this time of climate destruction: a tree, a marriage, a poem, a painting, a friendship, a child.”
--Maya Sonenberg, author of Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters

"What makes this novel so powerful is the fictional fabric of the narrative that weaves a lyrical and sensory-driven voice that take the reality of today's news and delivers it not from a bully pulpit, but with every prick of a needle, with each breath of smoke, with the embrace of those who love. Below the tree tops, the world is called the forest's understory. In Leafskin, we find ourselves to be that understory."
-- Shawn Wong, author of American Knees 

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