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Viking
March 2016
On Sale: March 15, 2016
304 pages
ISBN: 0525953000
EAN: 9780525953005
Kindle: B00SI0B5XA
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Historical
From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier,
a riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American
frontier. 1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their
wagon got stuck – in the muddy, stagnant swamps of
northwest Ohio. They and their five children work
relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings
from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can
cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their
claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows
the seeds of a long battle. James loves the apples,
reminders of an easier life back in Connecticut; while
Sadie prefers the applejack they make, an alcoholic
refuge from brutal frontier life. 1853: Their youngest child Robert is wandering through
Gold Rush California. Restless and haunted by the broken
family he left behind, he has made his way alone across
the country. In the redwood and giant sequoia groves he
finds some solace, collecting seeds for a naturalist who
sells plants from the new world to the gardeners of
England. But you can run only so far, even in America,
and when Robert’s past makes an unexpected appearance he
must decide whether to strike out again or stake his own
claim to a home at last. Chevalier tells a fierce, beautifully crafted story in At
the Edge of the Orchard, her most graceful and richly
imagined work yet.
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