The Sowing Season: A Novel

After he's forced to sell the family farm he's labored on his whole life, 63-year-old Gerrit Laninga doesn't know what to do with himself. He sacrificed everything for the land—his time, his health, his family—with nothing to show for it but bitterness, regret, and two grown children who want nothing to do with him.

Fifteen-year-old Rae Walters has growing doubts and fears about The Plan—the detailed blueprint for high school that will help her follow in her lawyer father's footsteps. She's ...