# Soil

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- Book: [Soil](https://www.bookquiver.com/jamie-kornegay/soil) ([Soil.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jamie-kornegay/soil.md))
- Authors: [Jamie Kornegay](https://www.bookquiver.com/jamie-kornegay)
- Publisher: john_murray
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4478-294-3
- Published: 2015-03-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

It begins as a simple dream. An idealistic environmental scientist moves his wife and young son off the grid, to a stretch of river bottom farmland in the Mississippi hills, hoping to position himself at the forefront of a revolution in agriculture. Within a year, he is ruined. When a corpse appears on his family's property, the farmer is convinced he's being set up. And so begins a journey into a maze of misperceptions and personal obsessions, as the farmer, his now-estranged wife, a predatory deputy, and a backwoods wanderer, all try to uphold a personal sense of honour. A darkly comic debut novel by an independent bookseller, Soil traces one man's apocalypse to its epic showdown in the Mississippi mudflats.