β Scribed by Juan, Li; Payne, Christopher
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The earthβs most powerful force is not its quake,
but rather its ability to be home for myriad creatures to growβ
An iron-willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 mu of less-than-ideal farmland: these are Li Juanβs companions on the steppes of the Gobi Desert.
Writing out of a yurt under Xinjiangβs endless horizons, she documents her familyβs quest to extract a bounty of sunflowers amid the harsh beauty and barren expanses of Chinaβs northwest frontier. Success must be eked out in the face of lifeβs unnegotiable realities: sandstorms, locusts and death.
While this small tribe is held at the mercy of these headwinds, they discover the cheer and dignity hidden in each other. But will their ceaseless labours deliver blooming fields of green and yellow? Or will their dreams prove as distant as they are fragile?
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