Description: "... a genre-defying work of nature writing, literary nonfiction, and memoir that explores what happens when nature and the city intersect."--Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes: "Brown lives far from any conventional battlefield, but he is surrounded by the wreckage of a different war, and he, too, finds hope in cultivating the ruins of nature...A Natural History of Empty Lots is less a departure from the nature writing tradition than a welcome addition to its edgelands." --New York Review of Books