Developed by Jana Rivers Norton, Ph.D, Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Cultural and Ethnic studies, Department of Writing and Communication, National University.

Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on my Family Farm
By David Mas Masumoto: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995. (ISBN #0-06-251025-8).
 
The Sacramento Public Library’s countywide project, One Book Sacramento:  Connecting Our Communities, encourages people of all ages in the Sacramento region to read the same book this fall.

The selected book title is Epitaph for a Peach by award-winning author David Mas Masumoto.  The book chronicles a year in the author’s quest to save the Sun Crest peaches grown on his family’s Fresno-area farm.  Though, more than peaches are at stake.  Masumoto is a son of Japanese Americans interned during World War II.  Thus, the book attempts to both document and preserve a way of life.
 
The following resource guide presents a thematic exploration to deepen and enhance the reader’s appreciation of the work as well as to enrich and enliven literary discussions by encouraging a process of shared discourse and inquiry.  It is recommended that book discussion participants keep a Reading & Reflection Log or Journal to record and reflect upon their thoughts, feelings, questions and personal memories as they proceed through the book to create a dialectic exchange between reader and what is read.

Book Discussion Resource Guide

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