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Sarah's story, told in her unique voice, inspires me--and I'm sure it will inspire you--to fight for family farmers. --Willie Nelson An exquisitely written American saga. --Sarah Smarsh Remarkably well told and heartfelt. --John Grisham The unforgettable true story of a young lawyer's impossible legal battle to stop the federal government from foreclosing on thousands of family farmers. In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that Franklin Delano Roosevelt created to help them.