Overview
In a world where concrete threatens to swallow roots and silence is the price of progress, one family's defiance is written in Sicilian curses, heirloom seeds, and the ashes of a woman who stared down the devil with a shovel. Grandma Rose-4'7" of dynamite in a moth-eaten cardigan-never met a fight she couldn't win, a rumor she couldn't weaponize, or a grandchild she couldn't terrify into honesty with a Bible-shaped urn and a command: "Talk to your Grandpa. I'll be in the garden." Decades after her death, her legacy lives in the fists of her descendants: a Chicago botanist grafting mafia secrets into hybrid crops, a Gen-Z rebel hacking corporate drones with Sicilian curses, and a toddler named Rosa who's just buried a lemon drop in soil the Arancena dynasty would kill to pave. From the sunbaked hills of 1930s Palermo to the solar-paneled battlefields of 2000 Indiana, this is a saga where love is a weapon, dirt has memory, and every harvest is a rebellion. Will the garden survive? Ask the urn. - A story where every root is a revolution, and the dead still tend the tomatoes.
- | Author: Drew Wohlford
- | Publisher: Independently Published
- | Publication Date: Aug 16, 2025
- | Number of Pages: 296 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-13: 9798298437004
