The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen
As the plant grows, the stem uncoils, revealing new leaves, tender at first, rough at last. The fruit appears at the end of a cycle, growing from a stem that bends toward the ground under its own weight.
The Forest Brims Over by Maru Ayase
Because it felt feminine to put emotion before rationality, to fall madly in love, to surrender one’s own existence to support a man.