The Serviceberry
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
Scribner
This musing on the serviceberry, also known as the Saskatoon berry, as a metaphor for how we can all live our lives was a bit more than I could wrap my head around. Weaving together the biology of this fruit, which can grow in the harshest of environments, and humans making their way in the world, is fine for some, but I just couldn’t get into it.