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(More customer reviews)Perhaps one has to be a farmer, or to have lived within an ag community such as the San Joaquin Valley in California, to get the full effect of this book. I had the pleasure of hearing the author and his daughter reading excerpts from this book for the Valley Writers Read program on the local NPR station. It was an amazing reading. In fact, it was what drew me to Amazon to find the book. Mas Masumoto's reading was so lyrical and tender, the rhythms so rich with poetic force, that I had to find this book. His work reminded me of my favorite poet, Li-Young Lee. A reader who cannot relate to or envision the difficult and demanding life of farming, who cannot imagine a fierce love for the land and how what it produces links nature with human existance, who have no sense of a generational link to the earth which is strong enough to transcend all risk and struggles to survive, who knows nothing about the blistering Central Valley summer heat, may have difficulty getting into this one. But for those who do understand, or would like to understand, I highly recommnded the book.
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