Down to Earth
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Known for her approachable cookbooks and advocacy for home cooking, Julia Turshen makes her fiction debut with a queer romance rooted as much in farming and community as in love. Set in the fictional Hudson Valley town of Sungold, the novel follows two women whose lives intersect at a small vegetable farm: Frankie, a longtime local farmer, and Paige, a recent arrival from Brooklyn seeking a fresh start with her young son.
As their relationship develops, Turshen explores the rhythms of rural life, the satisfaction of working the land, and the ways food can create belonging. The farm itself becomes more than a backdrop, shaping the novel’s pace and emotional landscape through harvests, shared meals, and the changing seasons.
Warm, hopeful, and grounded in Turshen’s own experience working on an upstate New York farm, Down to Earth brings to an entirely new genre the same generosity and sense of home that have characterized her cookbooks.
Paperback.
Published on June 23, 2026
