Publisher's Synopsis
This is a down-home story celebrating the enormous healing power of the Southern garden. Imogene Lavender, her daughter, Jeanette, and her niece, Lou wage their individual battles with grief and find the answer to many of life's questions deep in the red-clay dirt of Euharlee, Georgia. After forty-eight years of marriage, Imo's life is shattered when Silas, her beloved husband dies. She deals with her grief by throwing herself into nurturing both her vegetable garden and her girls. Imo's concern for Jeanette and Lou supercedes any desires for self-fulfilment, and she determines to go on with the 'fever of this life on earth' solely to guide Jeanette and Lou through the perils of adolescence and too many visits to the Dairy Queen.
