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Title: Grower's Market
Subtitle: A Novel of Free Enterprise in Marijuana Country
Author: Michael Baughman
Narrator: Jacob H. Knoll
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-12-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:
Grower's Market is set in remote marijuana country peopled with characters whose backgrounds are diverse and whose futures are uncertain. Sunbeam, who entered adult life as a 1960s San Francisco hippie girl, moved north searching for peace and quiet in unspoiled nature. Eventually she ended up running the Bird of Prey Tavern and growing enough weed to support her tranquil life. The men who eventually work for her - Shadow, Shrimp, Stones, Toon, and Shakespeare - are combat veterans searching for some of the same things Sunbeam found.
A Vietnam vet named Case, a widower, is Sunbeam's neighbor. Living on the top floor of the tavern is Rainbow, a runaway from Texas who tends bar and nurses her husband, a quadriplegic known as Uncle Sam.
Shadow and Shrimp plan to take the money they've earned growing weed and open a restaurant. Shakespeare is hard at work on a novel about a hero named Superpenis, modeled after the cartoon character Plastic Man, and a New York publisher is interested.
The heavily tattooed Toon sees himself as a living visual symbol of a world gone mad, and Stones has fallen in love with a virtual stranger at a homeless shelter. But now in the second decade of the 21st century, new people have arrived to claim space in the quiet valleys, next to the clear-flowing creeks, along the green mountainsides. They are large-scale growers, armed gangs, corrupt cops, and drug cartels, and violence and death come with them. Shadow, Shrimp, Shakespeare, Toon, and Stones must defend their turf against more heavily armed men who don't mind declaring war to claim this marijuana country as their own.

Members Reviews:
Dramatic action with memorable characters on all sides of the law and insights into marijuana creation.
Michael Baughman captures vividly the spectacular wilderness wherein his remarkable and memorable characters independently create and market their product successfully--against violently opposing forces on both sides of the law. Country and people I know from hiking the mountains, forests and valleys and wading and boating the cold clear water streams, and learning from these citizens in far northern California who have come from widely different locales and personal experiences. I gained from this-true-to-life novel new perspectives into contemporary life in American society and culture.
James W. Hall III, MD
Northwest Outdoor Writers Association: books, magazine stories and television productions.

Rabelais Meets Samual Beckett
Baughman's novel had me laughing before I got past the chapter titles. His sense of humor is irreverent but infectious, and though some knee-jerk moralists might object to the four-letter language, the truth is that this book is about as moral a statement as you'll find. The love relationships and friendships are gentle, honest, and enduring. The aspirations of the main characters are modest and wholesome. Where Baughman gets thoughtful and occasionally dark is in his treatment of bigotry, greed, and testosterone-driven violence--the very elements that have invaded and criippled the lives of his main characters and that threaten more destruction. There's texture and elegance here that transcend the comic scaffolding.

Greedy vs. Greedier
As a fan of Edward Abbey and Cormac McCarthy, I enjoyed this novel tremendously. Baughman fits right in with these guys. Throw in Clint Eastwood, too.