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At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a gentle solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots. Then two feral, pregnant girls and armed gunmen set Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect but to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past.
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"1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds of a long battle. James loves the apples, reminders of...
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University of Nevada Press
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[[1999] 1999]
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English
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A panoramic chronicle of rural life in the Santa Clara Valley during the decades before World War II. Against the backdrop of millions of fruit trees, the personal dramas of a cast of characters unfolds
A novel on the orchard country of pre-World War II California with its festivals. It follows the lives of a number of families, including that of an American-born Japanese girl as she tries to fit in, unaware of what awaits her.
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