Join the Rogers Park Branch as we read and discuss Craig Thompson's Ginseng Roots. Books will be available at the Rogers Park Reference Desk by November 1. Follow Craig Thompson and his siblings--who spent the summers of their youth weeding and harvesting rows of coveted American ginseng on rural Wisconsin farms for one dollar an hour--interweaving this lost youth with the three-hundred-year history of the global ginseng trade and the many lives it has tied together. Stretching from Marathon, Wisconsin, tonortheast China, [the book] charts the rise of industrial agriculture, the decline of Am…
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