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Mister Owita's Guide To Gardening: How I Learned The Unexpected Joy Of A Green Thumb And An Open Heart (2014)

by Carol Wall(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0399157980 (ISBN13: 9780399157981)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Amy Einhorn Books / G. P. Putnam's Sons

review 1: Kudos to Carol Wall. Explaining this book is very challenging. When I finished I felt encouraged and smiled. However, when trying to explain it to someone else it sounds like it would be very depressing due to multiple themes that are so painful. Ms. Wall has done an excellent job sharing the lessons Mr. Owita taught her through their gardening and friendship experiences. No, it is not a book about gardening, it is a book about learning to celebrate each moment of life and looking for the positive when life is overwhelming.
review 2: This is definitely not a guide to growing a garden, although a garden is important in the book. Instead, it is the true story of a Kenyan man and his family living in America and the difference he made in the life of Carol... more Wall, who tells their story here. Carol was a very needy person, struggling with cancer, dealing with her elderly parents, and just a generally helpless and pessimistic person. She and her husband had neglected their yard for years, and when a neighbor hired a gardener and Carol saw what he accomplished there, she asked him to come and dig out some azalea bushes that she didn’t want. Mr. Owita was a very talented gardener – it turned out that he had a PhD in horticulture that he had earned in Kenya. As she got to know Mr. Owita and his wife and realized all the hardships and burdens they were carrying in their own lives, she began to treasure them as friends. He was a very caring and understanding person, and slowly and steadily he showed Carol how to open her heart and appreciate the life that she had. To quote Mr. Owita, “In every moment there exists a lifetime. Every day brings something good.” less

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