GRAS Winter Book Club - The Light Eaters

What better time than the cold of winter, when prairies are dormant and most of the birds have migrated south, to curl up with a good book? 

Our second book will be “The Light Eaters” by Zoë Schlanger.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 •  Smithsonian’s 10 Best Science Books of the Year •  Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History

The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In this captivating exploration of plant intelligence, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs, a flower that shapes its bloom to fit exactly the bea…