Soil
By: Jamie Kornegay
Publisher: Two Roads Books; Two Roads
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781444782950
Subjects: Organic farming; Fiction; Murder; Investigation; Life change events
Description: It begins as a simple dream. An idealistic environmental scientist moves his wife and young son off the grid, to a stretch of river bottom farmland in the Mississippi hills, hoping to position himself at the forefront of a revolution in agriculture. Within a year, he is ruined. When a corpse appears on his family's property, the farmer is convinced he's being set up. And so begins a journey into a maze of misperceptions and personal obsessions, as the farmer, his now-estranged wife, a predatory deputy, and a backwoods wanderer, all try to uphold a personal sense of honour. By turns hilarious and darkly disturbing, Soil traces one man's apocalypse to its epic showdown in the Mississippi mudflats.