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Soil
Author: Jamie Kornegay
Narrator: Brian Hutchinson
Unabridged: 11 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/10/2015
Category: Fiction - Literary
Synopsis
A darkly comic debut novel by an independent bookseller about an idealistic young farmer who moves his family to a Mississippi flood basin, suffers financial ruinand becomes increasingly paranoid hes being framed for murder.
It all began with a simple dream. An ambitious young environmental scientist hoped to establish a sustainable farm on a small patch of river-bottom land nestled among the Mississippi hills. Jay Mize convinced his wife Sandy to move their six-year-old son away from town and to a rich and lush parcel where Jacob could run free and Jay could pursue the dream of a new and progressive agriculture for the twenty-first century. He did not know that within a year hed be ruined, that flood and pestilence would invade his fledgling farm or that his wife and son would leave him to pick up the pieces by himself.