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From internationally best-selling writer Tracy Chevalier, a riveting crisis of a pioneer family on the American frontier. It's 1838. Adam and Sadie Goodenough have resolved where their wagon received trapped - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of Northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from an area tree man known as John Appleseed to allow them to cultivate the 50 apple trees and shrubs necessary to stake their claim on the property. However the orchard they plant sows the seeds of a long battle. James enjoys the apples, reminders of an easier life back Connecticut, while Sadie prefers the applejack they make, an alcoholic refuge from brutal frontier life. It's 1853. Their youngest child, Robert, is wandering through Platinum Rush California. Restless and haunted by the destroyed family he left behind, he has made his way alone across the country. Inside the redwood and massive sequoia groves, he discovers some solace, collecting seeds for a naturalist who provides plants from the new world to the gardeners of Great britain. But you can run only up to now, even in America, and when Robert's past makes an urgent appearance, he must make a decision whether to strike out again or stake his own claim to a home finally. Chevalier instructs a fierce, superbly crafted storyline in At the Advantage of the Orchard, her most elegant and richly dreamed work yet.
