This is a narrative of generational rebellion against the forces of patriarchy and capitalism—aided by religion—that work in tandem to control women’s bodies just as they control nature, terraforming its wild abundance into sites of ordered, joyless reproduction: farms, fields, baby-making factories. Put another way, when people domesticated wheat, they also domesticated women. Asadi traces this entwined domination of women and land in the development of regional civilizations through the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, whose sexuality becomes taboo in the epic of Gilgamesh. But contra the linearity of patriarchal history, her Paradiso is both prologue and sequel. Humans mutate together with plants, putting down roots and supporting each other. Nobody is expelled from this particular Garden of Eden but rather coexist with fantastical pastelled abandon, free from taboo and societal mores.