After falling in love with Elliot Rhodes, her history teacher and subsequent molester, at the age of 14, this random fruit 'went rotten'.Ī backstreet abortion ends the relationship and drives a wedge between Yumi and her best friend, Cassie Quinn. As a child, she felt like 'a random fruit in a field of genetically identical potatoes', the result of cross-pollination and human migration thrust into a backwater.
A potato farmer turned seedsman, her father, Lloyd, is close to death and her mother, Lloyd's Japanese war-bride, Momoko, is suffering from Alzheimer's both require constant attention. Having run away in 1974, Ozeki's protagonist and quasi-narrator, Yumi Fuller, returns 25 years later when she learns of her parents' poor health.
The backdrop is two farms in Liberty Falls, Idaho, America's potato state.
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