All Over Creation

Yumi Fuller hasn’t set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls Idaho—heart of the potato-farming industry—since she ran away at age fifteen. 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 humorous appreciation of the foibles of corporate life globalization 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.