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Robin Wall Kimmerer on reading for ‘the richness of the gifts around you’ By Amy Sutherland Globe Correspondent,Updated December 17, 2020, 3:53 p.m. Email to a Friend Robin Wall Kimmerer.Dale Kakkak (Custom credit) Earlier this year Robin Wall Kimmerer’s essay collection “Braiding Sweetgrass” climbed onto The New York Times bestseller list seven years after its publication. In her award-winning book, Kimmerer mixes her knowledge as a botanist and as a member of the Cit...

Bluffton residents know her as Lucinda Stratton Guthrie. She writes mystery books under the pen name Bluette Matthey. Today she lives in Béziers in the south of France with her husband and, as she puts it, two demanding cats. (As an additional Bluffton connection, her brother is Rodney Stratton.) The former Blufftonite and BHS grad says she grew up reading mysteries and being frightened to death as a child watching Alfred Hitchcock on Friday nights. The result: “Two Murders Too Many,” Blu...