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Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Marie Mutsuki Mockett is the author of the book "American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland," out now from Graywolf Press.

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Food, faith and farming in the apocalypse: The coronavirus pandemic and the rural-urban divide

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What Americans don’t understand about weight loss

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Japan’s distinctly un-American brand of heroism

Marie Mutsuki Mockett