All Over Creation

ISBN: 0670030910

Title: All Over Creation

Author: Ruth Ozeki

KDL Description:

Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Yumi struggles with her father’s terminal illness, her mother’s Alzheimer’s, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.

Amazon Description:

Meet Yumi Fuller. A Japanese American prodigal daughter, Yumi — aka Yummy — is returning home to the Idaho potato farm she ran away from twenty-five years earlier. Then a freewheeling hippie chick, Yumi is now a (semi) responsible parent and a professor with a side gig selling lava lots in Hawaii. But can she possibly be prepared to face her dying father, Alzheimer’s-devastated mother, and Cass, the best friend she left behind? Not to mention a former lover whose agribusiness client has banished him to Idaho — where he lands in the small-town community he once offended and in Yumi’s life. As she grapples with her conflicted past and uncertain future, Yumi collides with the Seeds of Resistance, an eco-activist group with a knack for causing trouble wherever it plants itself.

With her signature wit and uncanny ability to evoke the pathos and humor of life’s conundrums, Ozeki spins a timeless tale of birth and death, family and friendship. All Over Creation is the emotionally resonant and utterly unique story of an ordinary woman just trying to make sense of it all as the unceasing cycle of all creation continues around her.