Sweet Almonds: Coming of Age in a California Orchard

A Memoir by Marc Medefind.

A secret gate opened up to a world of natural wonder and delight—much like Dorothy's Oz—in this enchanting autobiographical tale about coming of age next to an almond orchard. Marc Medefind's debut volume brims with love, joy, and humor as it tracks a year in the season-to-season life and care of an almond orchard. "Sweet Almonds" begins as a delightful collection of stories about growing up in the San Joaquin Valley of California. In scenes such as the wonderful appearance of 'snow' beneath the almond trees as a blizzard of petals drifts down, he shows how farmlands and orchards besides being the sources of our food can also connect us in spirit with the natural world.

And as Franz Kafka wisely reminded us: "God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them."