The pieces speaking about some of the hardest topics seem so surface level, I felt wrong reading it. Patrick for CBC in November 2021, Kaur said that as a child, her favorite books included theHarry Potter series, Ender’s Game(by Orson Scott Card), and The Chrysalids (by John Wyndham). With her popularity still on the rise, Kaur undertook a World Tour in 2022, beginning in the United States and Canada with additional stops in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. Rupi Kaur is a top ten Sunday Times bestselling author and illustrator of two collections of poetry.

She was known as an “instapoet,” a term used to designate those who share their work on social media. I understand I can change my preference through my account settings or unsubscribe directly from any marketing communications at any time. Just adding my unwanted two cents and personal preference here, but I would have been good had she stopped after 'and the bees growing jealous'. Initially, she self-published her first collection of poems, milk and honey, in 2014; it was so successful that it was republished in 2015 by independent US publisher Andrews McMeel. however, this utilized a lot of longer poems and metaphor and personification of nature, and although it’s still not my favorite style, it’s gotten so much better.

The poetic style is quite simplistic and some quotes I felt like were reworded versions of things I've seen before. It said, "Even if you like her, these little jabs at her plaintive voice are spot on: one of Kaur’s actual poems muses "If you are not enough for yourself/you will never be enough / for someone else" and, while that gained 175,000 likes on Instagram, it has the air of the slurred advice you might overhear at the back of a Wetherspoons. However it defended Kaur's concise, and somewhat condensed, poetry by saying, "But to read Kaur’s success as an omen of the death of poetry would be to unfairly dismiss writing that contains bravery, beauty, and wisdom. Following on from her previous collection (not that it is a sequel, but the format and themes are similar), the sun and her flowers is tackling the root of our own emotions and suffering, to taking it in and accepting the people around us, our ancestors and our heritage, our immigrant parents, to ultimately establishing self-love. The five sections of the book correspond with a poem that compares the process of personal growth to the life cycle of a flower.

Kaur, who was born in India and emigrated with her parents to Canada when she was four years old, explores in “rooting” her own roots and the sacrifices her parents made for her family in moving. According to her publisher Andrews McMeel, this and her previous collection milk and honey (2014) have together sold eight million copies and been translated into over 40 languages. Her writing is sometimes chided for being too Tumblr-esque, a ding on the very thing that makes her work as popular as it has become: its simplicity.

If you have a friend trying to put their life back together after a break up this book will help them focus on the path they need to take. There are underlying layers and raw thoughts and emotions beneath those words that have me wanting to savour it, reread it. Furthermore, I just can't ignore the more popular pieces she has claimed as her own when any avid reader can tell you they are not.

I hear a thousand kind words about me and it makes no difference yet I hear one insult and all confidence shatters - focusing on the negative. Kaur’s easy to read poems and simple illustrations leave room for her fans to impart on the pages their own stories and, maybe, eventually, join Kaur’s baby girl on the red carpet, arms outstretched in their own personal rising. My favorite parts in this quick read were the poems centered on Kaur's generational experience with immigration and her deep admiration for her mother.

As a man this book touched me because I never was aware of all the different ways we try to make women conform to 'our' idea of what they should be. She also comes to realize her mission in this world: equality and love for all genders, races and backgrounds.