David Mas Masumoto, best-selling author of ( Epitaph for a Peach , returns to the same ground but digs even deeper in a new, "more ambitious book" in which "he lets his philosophy about man and nature emerge from an absorbing chronicle of his life and that of his Japanese antecedents" ( The Economist ). This is a book about working alongside the ghosts of generations past, about the search for roots in the tragic history of internment camps and in the rural culture of Japan. It is equally about renewal--reinvigorating the farm with organic techniques, teaching his children how to carry on the ... More from Amazon