Urn:lcp:allovercreation00ozek:epub:99b3659f-6a43-42da-8852-b91fc4b38fad Extramarc Yale Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier allovercreation00ozek Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2v42xv2k Invoice 11 Isbn 9780670030910Ġ670030910 Lccn 2003545318 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary O元778489M Openlibrary_edition (Mar.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:08:43 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1107317 Boxid_2 CH110001 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor The fruits of this mix are definitely worth tasting. Ozeki's story splices a bit of Edward Abbey into an Anne Tyler plot. Yumi's bumpy relationship with Lloyd and Lloyd's unexpected fondness for the Seeds are especially well rendered. Apart from some awkward dialogue (the Seeds invariably intersperse their sentences with 'dude'), this quirky novel is bewitching. When the Seeds hold a Fourth of July potato protest on the Fullers' property, Elliot arranges for them to be arrested, with dire consequences for Lloyd. He is working for Cyanco's PR firm, spying on the Seeds. A classic 'bad seed,' Yumi ran away from home at 14, after having an affair with her history teacher, Elliot Rhodes back in Liberty Falls, she runs into Elliot and is again attracted. She has a bit of a problem with alcohol, and is unable to resist inappropriate guys, having three kids with as many men (Phoenix, 14 Ocean, 6 and baby Poo).

Yumi is an ex-hippie living in Hawaii, but she's returned home to care for her parents (her father is recovering from his last heart attack her mother has Alzheimer's). It is the other adult in the Fuller household, their only daughter, Yumi, who is suspicious of the Seeds. Against the odds, the hippie Seeds and the conservative Fullers become friends. Though they're hardly radicals, the Fullers are also opposed to genetic modification of plants.

Heading for the heart of potato country, the ragged activists end up in Liberty Falls, Idaho, encamped at the home of Lloyd and Momoko Fuller, elderly purveyors of natural seeds. The Seeds of Resistance is a small anti-biotech group targeting Nu-Life potato, a laboratory-designed tuber produced by agribusiness company Cyanco. 'Every seed has a story,' says Geek, an environmental activist in Ruth Ozeki's new novel (after My Year of Meats), which is all about seeds-real and metaphorical ones.

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