Grower's Market: A Novel of Free Enterprise in Marijuana Country

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"Growers Market" is set in remote marijuana country peopled with characters whose backgrounds are diverse and whose futures are uncertain. Sunbeam, who entered adult life as a 1960s San Francisco hippie girl, moved north searching for peace and quiet in unspoiled nature. Eventually she ended up running The Bird of Prey Tavern and growing enough wee

Michael Baughman was born in Buffalo and raised in western Pennsylvania and Hawaii. After college he served in the US Army in Germany, after which he returned to teach and write. He is the author of seven books. Baughman lives in Ashland, Oregon, with his wife of fifty years, children, and grandchildren.

"This dark, bizarrely comic novel about marijuana growers in the remote PNW is a valuable peek into a unique subculture and the turf wars that can emerge in a prohibitionist paradigm."--The Northwest Leaf "In the tradition of John Steinbeck's novels about West Coast down-and-outers (Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday), Michael Baughman's Grower's Market is the hilariously funny and deeply moving story of an ex-hippie girl with a golden heart and five unforgettable combat veterans turned marijuana growers. Ultimately, Grower's Market is a story about the corruption of the American dream, by war and politics, and the hope that, even so, love and kindness can still live on in the human heart."--Howard Frank Mosher