By  Tracy Chevalier

In 1838, James and Sadie Goodenough accidentally sow the dangerous seeds of strife after settling down at an apple orchard amidst the muddy Ohio Swamps.  Fifteen years later, their restless youngest child, Robert, seeks comfort in the redwood and giant sequoia groves he finds in Gold Rush California.  But traveling across the country cannot keep him from his difficult past for long.