Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s newest book, American Harvest: God, Country and Farming in the Heartland (Graywolf, 2021), won the 2021 Northern Californian Book Award for General Nonfiction. Her memoir, Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye, was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award. This article is slightly adapted from her presentation for the Annual Schrag Lecture at Messiah University in March 2022. Her book American Harvest was reviewed in the April 2021 edition of Brethren in Christ History and Life.
