Remembering Orchards (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Barry Lopez
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Plot: Antistory
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: Oregon and California
- Principal Characters: The narrator, His stepfather, Ramon Castillo
- Genres: Short fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, World War II, California, West, U.S., Pacific Northwest, Latinos, Stepfamily, China or Chinese people, Orchards
- Locales: California, Oregon
The Story
Written more in essay than story form, this first-person narrative reveals how the narrator has only belatedly resolved some important differences in his life. These differences appear in two primary forms: those that he willfully maintained between himself and his stepfather from the age of twelve until well into his adulthood and those between the outwardly ordered, apparently immobile orchard groves and their living residents, growing “in a time and on a plane inaccessible” to the casual observer.
The narrator's stepfather was an orchardist “of the...
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