Roots & Branches
by Mary Ellen Gambuttiin 📚 Literature
Roots & Branches
About the Substack
Roots & Branches: Personal essays and memoirs themes of identity, adoption. Seasons: Vignettes, nostalgia, image-poems. Behind the Hedge: Novella excerpts, craft essays, characters. The Garden & The Gate for a deeper dive.
Free Subscription Benefits
- All Roots & Branches -- personal essays. Seasons -- Haiga, Shahai, images, nostalgia, vignettes. Behind the Hedge -- Episodes, Characters, the Duology World.
Paid Subcription Benefits
- The Garden & The Gate -- Recovery & Preservation Series: A deeper dive into Silverton Estate. My deepest gratitude.
- Exploration of the adoption language inside the novellas. Plain talk and the metaphors.
- Celtic mythology, symbolism, Welsh folklore. and botanical tradition of the novellas. Perks to Come.
Paid Subscription Plans
- $5 a month
- $50 a year
About Mary Ellen Gambutti
Personal essays in an adoptee's voice. Novellas in magical realism, botanical estate, light-academia-Gothic. Behind the Hedge and The Garden & The Gate for the story world, Celtic and adoptee myth. Seasons for image-poetry, vignettes, nostalgia.
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