Grandma Rose

By 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FMQ116HW
• ISBN13: 9798298437004
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"