All Over Creation

From the author of My Year of Meats—a dramatic story of a prodigal daughter's homecoming to a heartland of genetically modified crops My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki's delicious debut novel, won a devoted following and was hailed by critics as inventing a new genre: the "eco-saga." Now, Ozeki takes us to the heart of the potato farming industry. When Yumi Fuller returns to her hometown after a twenty-five-year absence, she comes face to face with an old friend, her aging parents, and her conflicted past—as well as the "Seeds of Resistance," a rollicking environmentalist group that finds trouble wherever they plant themselves. With a quirky cast of characters and a keen eye for the vicissitudes of corporate life, political resistance, youth culture, aging baby boomers, and globalization, as well as the beauty of seeds, roots, and all growing things, All Over Creation offers something for just about everyone. “In this scampish, rather touching romp of a novel, Ruth Ozeki strikes a tone some-where between Michael Pollan, Jane Smiley, Amy Tan, and Carl Hiaasen. All Over Creation is the best book I’ve ever read about potatoes, and it’s also good on what Saul Bellow called ‘potato love’—the kind that thrives in close, unpretentious families.”—Seattle Weekly“Ruth Ozeki is bent on taking the novel into corners of American culture no one else has thought to look—but where she finds us in all our trans-cultural and techno-logical weirdness. With a combination of humor and pathos that is all her own, All Over Creation brings the American pastoral forward into the age of agri-business and genetic engineering. The result is a smart and compelling novel about a world we don’t realize we live in.” —Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire