Heirlooms: Letters From a Peach Farmer by David Mas Masumoto

“Masumoto is an American farmer whose family arrived from Japan in 1898 and today embodies a century long history of farming “the other California,” the agriculturally rich Central Valley . . . As literary essays, Masumoto’s letters are occasionally uneven. His unwavering adherence to the letter format sometimes adds an “aw, shucks” clumsiness, especially in letters to those who have died, as he finds he must insert disruptive contextual explanations for the anonymous reader.’ Read the review at the San Francisco Chronicle.