![]() Every main character has improved his or her own life as well as others', all the while setting in motion improvements among relatives, friends, chance acquaintances, and even passersby. ![]() Neighboring apartment dwellers of all ages and many cultural backgrounds begin planting there, too, and soon a new society-a vital and diverse human family-has developed. From the day when the secret plantings of a nine-year-old Vietnamese girl named Kim are discovered to be nothing more illicit than lima beans, the ugly lot is headed for changes. ![]() In Paul Fleischman's novel Seedfolks, a junk-strewn, rat-infested city lot is transformed into an urban oasis, a process that transforms the gardeners' lives, as well. "God Almighty first planted a garden," Sir Francis Bacon once noted. Each vignette in the novella tells the story of a different character from that character’s point of view and in that character’s voice. A novella is a short novel, and this one is organized by individual vignettes, which is defined as small, graceful literary texts. ![]() We are going to read the novella, Seedfolks by Paul Fleishman. ![]()
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