And your daughter is having a nervous breakdown. “Lloyd’s home, Mom.” I fingered the straggling ends of my mother’s hair. I still love Ozeki and will read anything and everything she writes. That would have been a better balance for me.Īll that being said. Less Yumi drama, less baby drama, and more about the Seeds of Resistance and Momoko's quiet seed revolution.

What I didn't love: Cass's constant pining for a baby, Yumi's irresponsible parenting, and the insensitive way that a murder was just kind of shrugged off by the community, and the way that the matriarch of the family was marginalized because of her dementia.

These were the things I loved about the book. I loved the heirloom plants and gardening sections. I like stories of resistance and quiet revolutions, and people with passion. I like family dramas - both books and on the screen. Clocking in at 16 hours on audio, and 430 pages, it was just too much of a good thing. it was just that there was so much of it. All Over Creation had some really bright spots, and overall, it was a compelling story. Her most recent novel, A Tale for the Time Being (2012), is one of the best books I've ever read, and My Year of Meats was also very strong. I really like Ruth Ozeki, and I really appreciate the conscientious way she writes. All Over Creation tells a celebratory tale of the beauty of seeds, roots, and growth-and the capacity for renewal that resides within us all. 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, “The Spudnick,” biofueled by pilfered McDonald’s french-fry oil.įollowing 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. 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. Yumi Fuller hasn’t set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idaho-heart of the potato-farming industry-since she ran away at age fifteen. A warm and witty saga about agribusiness, environmental activism, and community-from the celebrated author of My Year of Meats and A Tale for the Time Being.

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