It’s Tuesday evening and I’ve had a busy day at work so I’m not really in the mood to write a post, but it’s been more than two weeks since my last post and I don’t like to leave it too long. So, since I spent last week reading Silver Birch contenders which I can’t tell you about, here is a very brief post about one book I finished two weekends ago.
I finished reading Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation, and I have to say… WOW, it was all I was hoping for and so much more! Unfortunately, I can’t even begin to describe the plot, so here’s a quick summary: a young girl living on a potato farm in small town Idaho gets involved in a difficult relationship and runs away from home. Twenty-five years later, she is called upon to return home because her father is dying, which she agrees to do, although she is filled with unresolved angst and does so reluctantly. When she returns with her three children in tow, she is surprised to see that everything and nothing has changed. Throw into this mix of nostalgia and recollected nightmares a trailer full of tree-hugging activists who are fighting the evils of big agribusiness and monoculture and you’ve got one heck of a story. It is a story about biodiversity and the importance of saving seeds, about what it means to be family, about love and friendship, connection to the earth and each other, oh, and a lot about potato farming… I’m not kidding! Despite that, this book was riveting from beginning to end, at times very funny and at others heart-wrenching and deeply moving. I would highly recommend this book to just about anyone, and I think it’s going to be my Friends’ Book Club recommendation for our July meeting.
That’s all for tonight. Stay warm and pick up a good book!
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