Marie Mutsuki Mockett

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American Harvest: God, Country and Farming in the Heartland by Marie Mutsuki Mockett from Marie Mockett on Vimeo.

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Available – April 7, 2020
  • Winner, Nebraska Book Award for Nonfiction Solidarity, 2021
  • Winner, Northern California Book Award for General Nonfiction, 2021
  • Honoree, Richard Frisbie Award for Nonfiction, Society of Midland Authors 2021
  • Winner 2020 Sister Mariella Gable Prize
  • Finalist for the 2017 Lukas Prize for a work in progress
  • Finalist for the 2020 Heartland Booksellers Award, Nonfiction
  • Finalist for the 2020 Digital Book World Award, Nonfiction
  • “Meet the Heartland Evangelicals Who Feed America,” LA Times
  • “The Twenty Must Read Fiction and Nonfiction Books of the Summer 2020,” Newsweek
  • A Best Book of the Week, Financial Times
  • Briefly Noted, The New Yorker
  • Thirteen Books You Should Read in April–Time Magazine
  • Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020
  • Six Great Books to Read This Summer, Columbia University Magazine

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Traveling the West with a group of grain harvesters is a great idea for a book, and Mockett, the daughter of a Nebraska farm family, gives her whole self to it. She makes the details—the flowing kernels, the massive and sometimes ornery machinery, the various personalities of the harvesters, the fickle weather, the vast landscape—vividly alive. With openness and bravery she gets into the Christian faith, or faiths, that run deep in farm communities as she attends churches, asks questions, looks in her own heart. The result is a beautiful and powerfully moving book.

— Ian Frazier
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
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    • American Harvest
    • Where the Dead Pause the Japanese Say Goodbye
    • Picking Bones from Ash
    • Creative Nonfiction 3
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