It’s changed over the years, but it’s always been an immigrant neighborhood and nobody stays long. She doesn’t know if his spirit even knows who she is, but she believes that if she shows him that she can cultivate plants like he did, he’ll be proud of her.Īna has lived in the same apartment on Gibb Street since she arrived in the country in 1919, at four years old. As she digs, she thinks of her father, who was a farmer in Vietnam and died before she was born. She wades through the trash in the neighboring vacant lot and finds a spot behind an old refrigerator. It’s a blustery and cold spring day-but it barely seems like spring to Kim, who is from Vietnam and is accustomed to much warmer weather. The day after her father’s death anniversary, nine-year-old Kim takes a handful of dried lima beans from the kitchen, fills a jar with water, and sneaks outside. It follows a community garden in Cleveland from its first crops planted in April through the March of the following year. Seedfolks takes the form of short stories, each narrated by a different person.
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