9781644450178-1644450178-American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland

American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland

ISBN-13: 9781644450178
ISBN-10: 1644450178
Author: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover 416 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781644450178
ISBN-10: 1644450178
Author: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover 416 pages

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American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland (ISBN-13: 9781644450178 and ISBN-10: 1644450178), written by authors Marie Mutsuki Mockett, was published by Graywolf Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Cultural & Regional books. You can easily purchase or rent American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Cultural & Regional books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.51.

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An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains

For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett's father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it.

InAmerican Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family's fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth's crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as "the divide," inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals "not white," but who people she encounters can't quite categorize.

American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story.

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