All Over Creation

Author: Ruth Ozeki

With a combination of humour and pathos, All Over Creation narrates the return of Yumi Fuller, a Japanese-American daughter of a potato farmer to her home in Idaho as an adult. 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. 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, ‘The Spudnick’, biofueled by pilfered McDonald’s french-fry oil.

Following her widely hailed, award-winning debut novel, My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki returns here to deliver a quirky cast of characters and a wickedly humourous appreciation of the foibles of corporate life, globalisation, political resistance, youth culture and aging baby boomers. All Over Creation tells a celebratory tale of the beauty of seeds, roots and growth – and the capacity for renewal that resides within us all.

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With a combination of humour and pathos, All Over Creation narrates the return of Yumi Fuller, a Japanese-American daughter of a potato farmer to her home in Idaho as an adult. 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. 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, ‘The Spudnick’, biofueled by pilfered McDonald’s french-fry oil.

Following her widely hailed, award-winning debut novel, My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki returns here to deliver a quirky cast of characters and a wickedly humourous appreciation of the foibles of corporate life, globalisation, political resistance, youth culture and aging baby boomers. All Over Creation tells a celebratory tale of the beauty of seeds, roots and growth – and the capacity for renewal that resides within us all.

Published by Canongate
Paperback
2013
ISBN: 9781782111160