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The Last Apricot Tree Under the Mountain

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The nightly soundtrack of Jeff’s childhood came from just three television channels, carrying news of the Vietnam War, Watergate, and oil embargoes. But what did any of that matter to a little boy in rural north-central California, when you only had to be home by dark, Saturday morning cartoons marked time, and no one knew whether Batman and Robin would escape the giant clam that week?

Brentwood—the largest hamlet among several small farming communities in far eastern Contra Costa County—sat at the base of Mount Diablo and the western edge of the valley. Fruit orchards, tomato and corn fields, a small-town pool, makeshift Little League fields, the A&W root beer stand, and short commutes to shifts at local industry set the rhythm of daily life. No one imagined the freight train of Silicon Valley sprawl barreling toward them. The lazy Delta boundary between the San Francisco Bay and the rivers flowing from the Sierra Nevada offered no warnings, no whispers.

This book is a collection of essays, meditations, vignettes, and quiet prayers to that time and place, colored by the romantic memory of a small boy. You may not have grown up somewhere like this—on the edge of a continent and the edge of the future—but these sometimes humorous, sometimes heartwarming, and sometimes heartbreaking reflections on friends, family, and a world now gone will call forth memories of your own.
 
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