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100 1  Mockett, Marie Mutsuki,|eauthor. 
245 10 American harvest :|bGod, country, and farming in the 
       heartland /|cMarie Mutsuki Mockett. 
264  1 Minneapolis, Minnesota :|bGraywolf Press,|c[2020] 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    396 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-396). 
520    Inheriting her father's 7,000 acre wheat farm in the 
       panhandle of Nebraska, the author accompanies a group of 
       evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the 
       heartland, peeling back layers of the American story, the 
       politics of food and the culture of the Great Plains. 
520    For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a
       seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of 
       Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett's father was raised.
       Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with 
       her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about 
       farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all 
       but forsworn it.  In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies
       a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through 
       the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the 
       conservative farmer who has cut her family's fields for 
       decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth's crew on the trail 
       of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate 
       what Wolgemuth refers to as "the divide," inadvertently 
       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 own 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 astonishing book 
       attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national 
       story. 
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650  0 Family farms|zNebraska|xCase studies. 
650  0 Evangelicalism|zUnited States. 
650  7 Rural conditions.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01101474 
650  7 Family farms.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00920335 
650  7 Families.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01728849 
650  7 Evangelicalism.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00917002 
650  7 Evangelicalism.|2fast 
650  7 Families.|2fast 
650  7 Family farms.|2fast 
651  0 Middle West|xRural conditions. 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
651  7 Nebraska.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01208998 
651  7 Middle West.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01240052 
651  7 Nebraska.|2fast 
651  7 United States.|2fast 
655  7 Case studies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423765 
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