Will's career in New York City politics has fizzled out. When a
connected colleague and an ambitious restaurateur ask for his help
founding a farm in a neglected part of Brooklyn, he sees an opportunity
to reinvent himself like all the picklers, beekeepers, and kombucha
brewers he's been reading about. In the Weeds is a cautionary tale and a
satire of a time not too long ago when Brooklyn the place became
Brooklyn the idea."Dan Browne's tale of well-meaning Brooklynism will
ring true for anyone who has tried to get beneath the patina of Park
Slope's brownstones and actually engage the white folks inside them. A
satirical yet sympathetic look back at a moment when bike lanes would
change everything." --Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the
Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity"A Tree Grows in
Brooklyn? Not so fast. Idiosyncratic and funny, deliciously satirical
and bittersweet, Dan Browne's tale of good intentions smacking into
entrenched bureaucracy (and New York factionalization)) is above all,
utterly original. Part contemporary vision quest, part redemption song,
it happily slips every label and rolls on, taking the reader with it."
--Mark Slouka, author of All That Is Left Is All That Matters"Told with
humility, humor, and heart, In the Weeds shows how even when you plant a
seed with the best intentions, there's no telling how you're going to
grow." --Vanessa Davis, author of Spaniel Rage
