Seedfolks
by Paul Fleischman
An empty lot in Cleveland. Thirteen strangers. One garden.
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An empty lot in Cleveland. A Vietnamese girl plants lima beans to honor her dead father. Then a Haitian woman starts watching her. Then a Romanian man. Then an elderly white woman, a Black teenager, a Guatemalan family. Chapter by chapter, in their own voices, thirteen strangers become a community around a garden none of them planned. Fleischman wrote this in ninety pages and it contains more genuine understanding of how community actually forms — slowly, sideways, through proximity and shared labor — than books ten times its length. The most efficient novel about what cities actually are.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- North America
- Themes
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