Title: The Blossom Festival
First published: 1999
Description: Lawrence Coates's passionate historical novel explores many forces that are still felt today, including the collision of immigrant cultures and the lust to develop land.

A richly panoramic chronicle of the Santa Clara Valley during the decades before World War II, a fertile region of California that was leaving behind its agricultural past to become Silicon Valley.
Subjects: Farm life, Fruit growers, Japanese Americans, Fiction
Places: Santa Clara Valley, California
Time periods: pre-WWII
LC classification: PS3553.O153 B58 1999