All Over Creation
Meet Yumi Fuller. A Japanese American prodigal daughter, Yumi-aka Yummy-is returning home to the Idaho potato farm she ran away from twenty-five years earlier. Then a freewheeling hippie chick, Yumi is now a (semi) responsible parent and a professor with a side gig selling lava lots in Hawaii....
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Meet Yumi Fuller. A Japanese American prodigal daughter, Yumi-aka Yummy-is returning home to the Idaho potato farm she ran away from twenty-five years earlier. Then a freewheeling hippie chick, Yumi is now a (semi) responsible parent and a professor with a side gig selling lava lots in Hawaii. But can she possibly be prepared to face her dying father, Alzheimer's-devastated mother, and Cass, the best friend she left behind? Not to mention a former lover whose agribusiness client has banished him to Idaho-where he lands in the small-town community he once offended and in Yumi's life. As she grapples with her conflicted past and uncertain future, Yumi collides with the Seeds of Resistance, an eco-activist group with a knack for causing trouble wherever it plants itself. With her signature wit and uncanny ability to evoke the pathos and humor of life's conundrums, Ozeki spins a timeless tale of birth and death, family and friendship. All Over Creation is the emotionally resonant and utterly unique story of an ordinary woman just trying to make sense of it all as the unceasing cycle of all creation continues around her.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780786192397 (0786192399)
Publish date: April 1st 2003
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Environment,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Japan
“Lloyd’s home, Mom.” I fingered the straggling ends of my mother’s hair. And your daughter is having a nervous breakdown. And there’s a caravan of hippies camping out behind the barn. Oh, and you’re a prophet of the Revolution.” All Over Creation is probably Ruth Ozeki's weakest book to date, and ...
Such a lovely book from the author of "My Year of Meats," which I also enjoyed. This more than makes up for the last several books I read that were rather disappointing. It was an interesting story full of interesting characters, both good and bad, and it was all well-written. Excellent!