"On their neighborhood walks together, a boy learns from his older sister all about the plants they see — magnolias that smell like lemon cake, creeping weeds that used to be planted for decoration, and even how dandelion greens can be eaten with spaghetti! But what makes a plant a flower, vegetable or weed, anyway? How can his sister tell, and how does she know so much?The boy’s head spins as he realizes how vast the universe is and how much there is to learn … until he resolves to le...

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A novel about the unshakeable animosity between a brother and sister and a community increasingly divided as the feud spirals further into vendettas and violence each year. Through seasons of want and uncertainty, through predatory storms and pandemics and marauding privateers, it is the human heart the reveals itself to be the most formidable adversary each person faces. A pitch-perfect evocation of a lost time and a shadowed mirror to our modern politics of grievance and retribution.

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