This new little book by David Mas Masumoto is a treasure of family, community, agricultural, American, and global insights. It's short, I read it in one morning, with sun beaming down and a hot cup of tea in my hand. It was perfect for this books style.
Slow, lush prose, beautifully accented with illustrations by Doug Hansen. It's a testament to good food, carefully grown: to family farmers, organic farmers and central valley agriculture, but it's also a deeply moving statement about community and family. The letters range from discussions about old time peach varieties, to farmworkers, to Masumoto's Japanese-American family's experiences of WWII: both from internment camps and from the battlefield.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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