Unveiling Secrets and Shadows: A Riveting Journey in The Light Between Apple Trees
Ms. Kumar brackets this book, in the preface and near its conclusion, with a memory of her childhood in the Himalayas, running through an orchard with her father, delighting in the trees and their fruit. In that latter, more realized, recollection, she writes, “I experienced an awakening: I saw that the earth herself had opened her great green arms and lumbered over to give me an apple-scented kiss.”
The evident warmth of this memory formed, for this reader, the true light between the apple trees of this incredible memoir within its one-year narrative that explores the state of once prolific apple orchards in New Mexico. I learned that apples arrived there in waves, dating back to Spanish colonialist explorations and reaching a peak more than a century ago as settlers arrived with trees from the East Coast.
