Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm (David M. Masumoto)

A lyrical, sensuous and thoroughly engrossing memoir of one critical year in the life of an organic peach farmer. 

“The book follows Masumoto’s yearlong attempt not just to keep his Sun Crest [peaches] alive but to ‘farm a new way, working with and not against, nature.’ It seems clear to him from the start that ‘this year will decide my fate,’ and somehow, thanks largely to the quiet eloquence of his writing, we know our own destiny is somehow wrapped up in the future of those peaches, too.” —San Francisco Chronicle