Possessing the Seasons: The Planting Logs of Linkum Regards

A Faulknerian, poetic spell of intrigue, bravado, melancholy and humor set in a long-forgotten corner of southern Illinois. A farming community of Amish and Anabaptists in-breeding for 160 years told in the first-person narrative of Justus Roe, who recollects from his aging years to recount an eighteen-month span of record-breaking seasons from his youth. Officially a generational planting log, we live and experience the mother's declining health alongside the threat to the community's vani...