Growland

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A compelling and candid tale about starting over in a beguiling environment. Moskowitz’s novel is written with the kind of rich details and realistic insights that insiders would know. –Kirkus Reviews
Celeste is fleeing the city and her disastrous marriage, taking her two daughters and the few belongings she can cram into her car. It’s 2002, and she’s hoping to find refuge in the remote hills of Northern California with her former boyfriend—instead she unwittingly immerses herself and her children in the illicit marijuana-growing culture of Humboldt County. Growland includes eighteen stunningly original B&W photos.

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Moskowitz deftly describes this alternate world among the redwood forests as a place of refuge and healing, where the morality is pure but untamed and flirts with criminality. Sometimes, everything seems upside down in this realm (“In SoHum the rivers all flowed north, like the Nile”). Not every choice Celeste makes is stellar, but the tragedies are as integral to her vivid journey as the abundant benefits. A compelling and candid tale about starting over in a beguiling environment. -Kirkus Reviews