This unconventional, poetic, yet gritty memoir from Davis-based writer Brenda Nakamoto evokes her childhood as the daughter of a peach farmer in rural northern California, investigates her roots as sansei (third-generation Japanese-American), and movingly reflects on the decline of her aging parents. Nakamoto's deep connections to the land, farming, family, and the complexities of personal and family history give her work weight and balance.   “In this remarkable memoir, life floats between land and sky, people are transformed by work, dirt comes in both clean and dirty varieties, roots are deepened across time and space, and luck is given its place among the fruits. It’s rare that storytellers show us so gorgeously what the blur of love does to them in the telling. In these pages you will come undone as simply and completely as you have been grown.”— Rae Gouirand   “Nakamoto’s story of her father captures the soul of the nisei farmer, his boldness, his love of growing things.”—Kiyo Sato, author of Dandelion Through the Crack “In Peach Farmer's Daughter, writer Brenda Nakamoto brings to life her youth growing up as a third-generation Japanese American in the melting pot of California's Central Valley. Her stories sizzle and crackle with colorful imagery, agrarian fascinations, and ancestral tones. A great read.”—Clifton B. Parker, associate editor, UC Davis Magazine