All Over Creation

<p>Yumi Fuller hasn't set foot in Liberty Falls, Idaho, heart of the potato-farming industry, since she ran away at age fifteen. 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. </p> <p>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 called The Spudnick, biofuelled by pilfered McDonald's french-fry oil. </p> <p>Ruth Ozeki delivers 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. <i>All Over Creation</i> tells a celebratory tale of the beauty of seeds, roots, and growth - and the capacity for renewal that resides within us all.</p> <p><b>Ruth Ozeki</b> was born and raised in Connecticut by an American father and a Japanese mother. She has lived in Japan, where among other things she worked as a bar hostess and studied flower arrangement, Noh drama and mask carving. Ruth practises Zen Buddhism and was ordained as a priest in 2010. She is the bestselling author of <i>My Year of Meats</i> and <i>A Tale for the Time Being</i>.</p> <p>textpublishing.com.au</p> <p>'A book where dread and hope coexist. Neither is given short shrift or magicked away.' <i>New York Times Book Review</i></p> <p>'Ozeki joins the constellation of such environmentally aware writers as Barbara Kingsolver, Annie Proulx and Margaret Atwood, bringing her own shrewd and playful humor; luscious sexiness and kinetic pizzazz to the table, as well her keen interest in the interface between food, family, science and corporate greed, and the dynamics of spin.' <i>Chicago Tribune </i></p> <p>'<i>All Over Creation</i> buzzes and blooms with the cross-pollination of races and subcultures, death and birth, betrayal and reconciliation, comedy and tragedy.' <i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i></p> <p>'<i>All Over Creation</i> opens wider with every plot twist as it moves from tenderness to comedy to sobering truth and the world in the eye of one family's storm.' Barbara Kingsolver</p>