Booktalk with Diana Korte

Writer Priyanka Kumar's "The Light Between Apple Trees"


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Host Diana Korte speaks with Priyanka Kumar, author of 3 books, whose newest title isThe Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit.” 

As a child in the foothills of the Himalayas, Priyanka Kumar was entranced by forest-like orchards of diverse and luscious fruit—especially apples. These biodiverse orchards seemed worlds away from the cardboard apples that lined supermarket shelves in the United States.

Yet on a small patch of woods near her home in Santa Fe, NM Kumar discovered a wild apple tree—and the seeds of an odyssey were planted. Could the taste of a feral apple offer a doorway to the wild?  

Kumar is a prize winning filmmaker (“The Song of the Little Road”), novelist (“Take Wing and Fly Here”), environmental author (“Conversations With Birds”), and acclaimed naturalist.  

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