The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican memoir of plants and dreams by Jason Allen-Paisant games ISBN: 9781529062779

ISBN: 9781529062779

Johnny will tell the story of his life

Soup is at a crossroads

and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets

awakening desires she thought she’d buried for good after her divorce

The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican memoir of plants and dreams by Jason Allen-Paisant games ISBN: 9781529062779'An extraordinary, necessary book' Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland The Possibility of Tenderness is a personal history narrated through the lens of the grung and plants. Its also a peoples history of the land, a family saga, an archival detective story through time. Its the migration tale of a young scholar who arrives in Britain from rural Jamaica to study at Oxford to achieve upward social mobility and who now lives in Roundhay Leeds.