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‘The Risk It Takes to Bloom’ offers plainspoken inspiration

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‘The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation’By Raquel Willisc.2023, St. Martin’s Press$29/384 pages The catalogs should start arriving soon.

If you’re a gardener, that’s a siren song for you. What will you put in your pots and plots this spring? What colors will you have, what crops will you harvest?

It never gets old: put a seed no bigger than a breadcrumb into some dirt and it becomes dinner in just weeks. All it needs, as in the new memoir “The Risk It Takes to Bloom” by Raquel Willis, is a little time to grow.

The last time Raquel Willis remembers being completely safe and loved without strings attached was at age five, at a talent show.

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