In the 1970's the Back To The Land Movement brought swarms of hippies and other alternative people, disenchanted with modern life, into the wild country of Humboldt County in the far north of California. There they intended to live close to the land and create the kinds of communities they thought would improve on those they had left behind; how that worked out was foreseeable enough. There, also, they began to grow marijuana, then very illegal and heavily prosecuted.
Growing at first was a declaration of defiance and freedom. "Plant that bell," Neil Young sang, "and let it ring." In the deep, rain-soaked soils and mild climate of Humboldt, where everything grows bigger than anywhere else, the grass rose high and green.
Someday maybe someone will write the whole story of how growing marijuana went from an act of liberation to a major industry, corrupted the local economy and politics, and made Humboldt County both a watchword around the world and a kind of war zone. This novel covers the first chapter of that.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Growing at first was a declaration of defiance and freedom. "Plant that bell," Neil Young sang, "and let it ring." In the deep, rain-soaked soils and mild climate of Humboldt, where everything grows bigger than anywhere else, the grass rose high and green.
Someday maybe someone will write the whole story of how growing marijuana went from an act of liberation to a major industry, corrupted the local economy and politics, and made Humboldt County both a watchword around the world and a kind of war zone. This novel covers the first chapter of that.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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