What she doesn’t anticipate is the chaos precipitated by the sudden arrival of the Seeds of Resistance, an irrepressible eco-activist group, who find Lloyd’s fundamentalist views of life’s sacred nature in synch with their own, proclaim him their guru, and move into the Fullers’ driveway. When Yumi, now a single mom and part-time college teacher who sells Hawaiian real estate on the side, arrives back at the farm with her three mixed-race, illegitimate children in tow, she fully expects the confrontation with her past to be difficult.

But after Lloyd has a heart attack and Momoko succumbs to dementia, Cass decides to track her friend down. Cass hasn’t seen or heard from her friend Yummy since the day Lloyd found out about Yummy’s affair with their high school history teacher, Elliot Rhodes. He sold his acreage to Yumi’s childhood friend, Cass, and now, twenty-five years later, he and his wife, Momoko, run a modest catalogue seed company out of her small but prolific garden.Ĭass and her husband are hard-working farmers, trying to make a go of it despite difficult times and devastating setbacks: first childlessness, then cancer. Lloyd Fuller, a God-fearing man, once ran the largest potato operation in Power County, Idaho, but when his fourteen-year-old daughter, Yumi (nicknamed “Yummy”), ran away, his luck changed, and he was forced to downsize. From the author of My Year of Meats - a dramatic story of a prodigal daughter's homecoming to a heartland of genetically modified crops.

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