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“As you might expect, Gurney’s prose style leans toward the hyperbolic; the key literary influence here would appear to be Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and exclamation points sprout from the page like weeds after a rain.”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

“Some might call our farm a backwater, but the vast world is present here.”
― Arwen Donahue, Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year

“For anyone who sees only useless toil in strawberry jam made from homegrown fruits (when a big jar costs only three dollars at Walmart), the author’s response is beautifully succinct: “I love to eat of the soil of this place, to know that my flesh and this patch of earth are stitched together. What good is an economy that disregards love?”
― Arwen Donahue, Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year

“I wanted to be Japanese”
― Rabih Alameddine, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel