Her most recent book, “ American Harvest: God, Country and Farming in the American Heartland,” is set in seven agricultural and heartland states, and was published in hardcover by Graywolf Press on April 7, 2020. She received her MFA from the Bennington Writers Seminars. If you are interested in making a donation for the program or purchasing a copy of the book, see the form below.Marie was born and raised in California to a Japanese mother and American father, and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, where she wrote about female shamans in Japan. Please RSVP for the link to the book talk. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. The JSei Book Club will share reflections from their deep dive into the book and pose questions to spark dialogue with author Marie Mockett.įor over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised.
We welcome Marie Mutsuki Mockett, author of Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye, who will join J-Sei once again to share her recent journey through the harvest in the heartland of America. American Harvest, a book talk with Marie Mutsuki Mockett Wednesday, September 30th, 4 pmĪn epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains
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