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Clare Cooper Marcus
Groundbreaking: My Unmapped Path As an Academic, Mother, and Gardener
Groundbreaking: My Unmapped Path As an Academic, Mother, and Gardener
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- More about Groundbreaking: My Unmapped Path As an Academic, Mother, and Gardener
Clare Cooper Marcus's Groundbreaking is a sweeping autobiographical memoir that spans nearly nine decades of personal history. Moving from a wartime childhood in England through her academic career in the United States, the book weaves together stories of resilience, intellectual discovery, and the healing power of nature. The narrative alternates between richly detailed life episodes-growing up as an evacuee during WWII, becoming a pioneering woman in academia, raising a family as a single mother-and lyrical "Garden Stories," meditations rooted in her Berkeley garden that serve as metaphors for growth, loss, and renewal. Through these interwoven strands, Marcus reflects on identity, motherhood, love, resilience, and the solace found in landscapes both cultivated and wild. Ultimately, Groundbreaking is a meditation on survival and thriving-on how land, gardens, and memory shape a life. It is as much a personal journey as it is a testimony to the enduring human need for grounding in place and nature.
- Publication date: 19 May 2026
- Page count: 360
- Dimensions: Height 229 mm; Width 152 mm
- Publisher: New Village Press
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN-13: 9781613322925
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