书籍介绍
A vacant lot, rat-infested and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden. Especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed soil to plant her precious bean seeds. Suddenly, the soil holds promise: To Curtis, who believes he can win back Lateesha's heart with a harvest of tomatoes; to Virgil's dad, who sees a fortune to be made from growing lettuce; and even to Maricela, sixteen and pregnant, wishing she were dead.
Thirteen very different voices -- old, young, Haitian, Hispanic, tough, haunted, and hopeful -- tell one amazing story about a garden that transforms a neighborhood.
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生活中的平凡小事，大家一起做，就會變成一件不平凡的事。故事雖然短小，但是其中投射以及蘊含的美國社區文化，挺深刻的。
多人物视角，也可以试试拍成电影了。
高写课的读物。有趣的小书，轻描淡写，编小故事，讨论现代城市中的交往等等一堆问题。就是有点太治愈……- -b
英语课的reading，节奏比较缓慢、很好读、很轻松但是读后令人回味甚久的小书。让我想起之前读的《芒果街上的小屋》。
Chapter by chapter, each character describes the transformation of an empty lot into a vibrant community garden, and in doing so, they each experience their own transformations.
再中肯点，温心小册。
/It's in my assigned reading list of courses American Culture,reflecting a common value between different races.A lovely brief book.
突然想起这本书。大一英语课外教老师带着我们一节课读一章，好像还有各种题目
有空想重读一遍，很温暖的社区故事
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