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Grandma Rose

Drew Wohlford

In a world where concrete threatens to swallow roots and silence is the price of progress, one family's defiance is written in Sicilian curses, heirloom seeds, and the ashes of a woman who stared down the devil with a shovel.

Grandma Rose-4'7" of dynamite in a moth-eaten cardigan-never met a fight she couldn't win, a rumor she couldn't weaponize, or a grandchild she couldn't terrify into honesty with a Bible-shaped urn and a command: "Talk to your Grandpa. I'll be in the garden."

Decades after her death, her legacy lives in the fists of her descendants: a Chicago botanist grafting mafia secrets into hybrid crops, a Gen-Z rebel hacking corporate drones with Sicilian curses, and a toddler named Rosa who's just buried a lemon drop in soil the Arancena dynasty would kill to pave.

From the sunbaked hills of 1930s Palermo to the solar-paneled battlefields of 2000 Indiana, this is a saga where love is a weapon, dirt has memory, and every harvest is a rebellion.

Will the garden survive?

Ask the urn.

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A story where every root is a revolution, and the dead still tend the tomatoes.

GenresFictionAlternative History

296 pages

English edition · First published 2025 by Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp · ISBN 9798298437004

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