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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Required reading.”—
New York Post “Ambitious in scope… both fascinating and disturbing... I’ll never walk through the produce aisle the same way again… [
Banana] is at once a political and economic treatise, a scientific explication, and a cultural history.”—
The Boston Globe “Clear, engaging… admirable… part historical narrative and part pop-science adventure.”—
San Francisco Chronicle “[A] brilliant history.”—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer “A fascinating and surprising history of our most ubiquitous fruit.”—
Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Monkey Girl and Mississippi Mad “The history of oil has nothing on that of the yellow fruit.”—
Salon.com