"Seeds" is the chronicle of novelist Richard Horan's quest to
gather seeds from trees at the homes of America's most beloved
authors. A heartfelt paean to the writers of America's past,
"Seeds" is equally a wise, funny, and enthralling memoir of one
man's reconnection with nature. Horan crisscrosses the country
while also traversing the wide gamut of American literature, from
the wooded road of yellow hemlocks leading to L. Frank Baum's
childhood home in upstate New York; to the silver maples ringing
Jack Kerouac's one-time house in Lowell, MA (the same majestic
giants, Horan reflects, that Kerouac was likely thinking of when he
wrote that felt most at peace when in the presence of trees); to
the invasive tree that grew in Betty Smith's Brooklyn. Horan is a
passionate, insightful, and eminently likeable narrator, and his
search to connect trees and writers-and his failure, at times, to
do so-as well as the generally fun tone of his adventures (he
nearly gets arrested more than once) is both fascinating and
endearing. Horan's destinations include the homes of: Jack Kerouac,
Rachel Carson, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Henry Miller,
Krishnamurti, Ken Kesey, John Muir, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery
O'Connor, Carson McCullers, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Harper
Lee, Truman Capote, Thoreau and Emerson, Robert Frost, Herman
Melville, Pearl S. Buck, Shirley Jackson, L. Frank Baum, Esther
Forbes, Helen Keller, Tennessee Williams, Sherwood Anderson, Louis
Armstrong, William S. Burroughs, Eudora Welty, Willie Morris, and
William Faulkner, as well as historically significant locations
such as Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Gettysburg.
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