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American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
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Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Narrated by:
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
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April 2020
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17 hours 44 minutes
Summary
For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand acre wheat farm in Nebraska, where
Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in Carmel, California, with her father and her
Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but foresworn it.
At the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades, Mockett
accompanies a group of evangelical wheat harvesters through the heartland as they follow the trail of ripening wheat
from Texas to Idaho. Together they contemplate what Eric refers to as “the divide,” peeling back layers of the American
story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles
to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her status as a person who signals “not
white,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize.
American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from
evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite
lyricism and humanity, this powerful book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story
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