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You’ll never look at fig leaves the same way after reading this hilarious, whipsmart and sometimes painful novel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Although his canvases typically sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, when he completed a large mural for the Palestinian Museum, his requested fee was only a fig tree to be planted in the garden.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The backyard includes tiger fig trees, apple trees, and other edible plantings surrounding a swimming pool designed for year-round Southern California living.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Instead, it’s inspired by the famous fig tree metaphor from Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” where each plump and juicy fig, dangling deliciously on the branches, represents a different life path for the protagonist.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

In the middle of the day she tied up to an immense strangler fig and clambered over it to reach land.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer