{"product_id":"weave-me-a-crooked-basket-paperback","title":"Weave Me a Crooked Basket - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Goodrich\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautifully unconventional love story.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's the summer of 2008, and thirty-five-year-old Ursula Tunder, reeling from the breakup of a bad marriage, has abandoned her career as a botanist and moved home to the family farm to start a wholesale garden-plant greenhouse, and, perhaps more importantly, to care for her ailing father, Joe. Her younger brother, Bodie, now that a shoulder injury has ended his NFL career, comes home as well, to try his hand at organic farming. Their land at the edge of a prosperous college town is coveted by developers. Ursula wants to sell the farm to Camas Valley State University, which has promised to create a research facility on the land, but Bodie and his idealistic wife, Fleece, are committed to farming. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Enter Nu, Ursula and Bodie's Vietnamese-American cousin by adoption, and an up-and-coming visual artist. When Nu gets arrested after a fight with a pair of dirt bikers, Joe persuades him to take refuge at the Tunder farm. Nu gets pressed into service helping Bodie with farm chores and taking care of Joe, so Ursula seizes the opportunity to get away from the farm, accepting a temporary job surveying native plants in the Cascades. But when Joe's health plummets and Bodie's finances crash, Ursula abandons her summer job to return home once again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Facing bankruptcy, Ursula, Bodie, and Nu enlist a ragtag troupe of land-defenders in a festival of resistance in a last-ditch effort to save a way of life that may disappear forever.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Goodrich\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Practice of Home\u003c\/i\u003e and four widely read books of poetry: \u003ci\u003e Watering the Rhubarb, A Scripture of Crows, Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Insects of South Corvallis\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also coeditor of two anthologies: F\u003ci\u003eorest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens\u003c\/i\u003e. His poems and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eOrion, High Country News, The Sun, The Ecopoetry Anthology, Poetry of Presence\u003c\/i\u003e and many other journals and anthologies. Garrison Keillor has featured Goodrich's poetry more than a dozen times on \u003ci\u003eThe Writers' Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764785414432,"sku":"9781647791223","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a7e237cad6d6ab1e5e7dd65035b19dae.webp?v=1780254632","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/weave-me-a-crooked-basket-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}