The foremost chapter is especially good at exploring these themes, which I believe is available elsewhere as a short story. Its inspiration, an anecdote of Burk

The foremost chapter is especially good at exploring these themes, which I believe is available elsewhere as a short story. Its inspiration, an anecdote of Burke's where her houseplants had been found to attack and starve each other, shines through quite clearly: https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=686#m12056 https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=686...