Pot Farm, 9780803237841
Paperback
After eight months in his childhood home helping his mother through cancer, Matthew Frank and his wife were desperate for comfort. They found sanctuary in the most unlikely place - amid a collection of outcasts and eccentrics on a ““mostly medical”” marijuana farm in California. Pot Farm details the…
  • Paperback

    232 pages

  • Release Date

    1 March 2012

Summary

After eight months in his childhood home helping his mother through her bout with cancer, Matthew Frank and his wife were themselves desperate for comfort. They found sanctuary in the most unlikely place-amid a collection of outcasts and eccentrics on a plot of land miles outside their comfort zone: a “mostly medical” marijuana farm in California. Pot Farm details the strange, sublime, and sometimes dangerous goings-on at Weckman Farm, a place with hidden politics and social hierarchies, pop…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780803237841
ISBN-10:0803237847
Author:Matthew Gavin Frank
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:University of Nebraska Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:232
Release Date:1 March 2012
Weight:381g
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Pot Farm is a simultaneously beautiful, dark and life-affirming story that recounts the summer Frank and his wife spent as workers at a California collective, Frank as a field hand, and his wife as an on-site masseuse. It’s a book I would’ve paid to read.” - John Warner, Inside Higher Ed “Pot Farm is the curious and compelling tale of a hazy season spent harvesting medical marijuana. The cast of characters rivals those found in the finest comic fiction, except these folks are real, and really peculiar. Pot Farm is smart, sly, revelatory, often laugh-out-loud funny, and entirely legal.” - Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire “Sex, politics, intrigue, crime, adventure, life and death it’s all here, in a strangely compelling hybrid of action flick meets postmodern philosophical meditation meets Cheech and Chong. This compulsively readable expose from a self-proclaimed unreliable narrator has it all, including a cast of outcast characters who simply jump off the page.” - Gina Frangello, author of Slut Lullabies

About The Author

Matthew Gavin Frank

Matthew Gavin Frank is an assistant professor of creative writing at Northern Michigan University. He is the author of Barolo, available in a Nebraska Paperback, and the poetry collections Sagittarius Agitprop, Warranty in Zulu, and The Morrow Plots.

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