Winterchill

Set in a plum orchard in California, six members of the Clark family narrate this story of a father-son relationship, their connections to the land, and their claims on one another. Winterchill--the long period of cold weather necessary for plum blossoms to break--is the story of how these embattled individuals grow into themselves. With characters as elemental and earthy as the plum trees in this orchard, and in stark, spare prose, Ernest J. Finney has written a deeply felt novel of renewal.