A warm and witty saga about agribusiness, environmental activism, and communityâfrom the celebrated author of My Year of Meats and A Tale for the Time Being
Yumi Fuller hasnât set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idahoâheart of the potato-farming industryâsince she ran away at age fifteen. Twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter returns to confront her dying parents, her best friend, and her conflicted past, and finds herself caught up in an altogether new drama. The post-millennial farming community has been invaded by Agribusiness forces at war with a posse of activists, the Seeds of Resistance, who travel the country in a camping car, âThe Spudnick,â biofueled by pilfered McDonaldâs french-fry oil. Following her widely hailed, award-winning debut novel, My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki returns here to deliver a quirky cast of characters and a wickedly humorous appreciation of the foibles of corporate life, globalization, political resistance, youth culture, and aging baby boomers. All Over Creation tells a celebratory tale of the beauty of seeds, roots, and growthâand the capacity for renewal that resides within us all.
All Over Creation opens wider with every plot twist as it moves from tenderness to comedy to sobering truth and the whole world in the eye of one family's storm. This is Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang updated by thirty years, with modern environmental challenges on the map and women in the front seat, driving the story. Hooray, Ruth Ozeki rides again.âauthor of The Poisonwood Bible
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Women's Fiction
- Contemporary
- Women's Fiction
Publisher : Penguin Books
Author : Ozeki, Ruth
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2004-03-30
Number Of Pages : 432
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0142003891
ISBN-13 : 9780142003893
Item weight : 0.55 lb
Dimensions : 1 in x 5.3 in x 8 in
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