Hashes & Bashes

FAITH… FAMILY… FRENZY! Nine months after their comically abbreviated RV road trip, detailed in the award-winning book, STASHES, the Breeden family farm routines have stabilized: Jackie returned to her high school cafeteria job and their only son, Brandon, works alongside his father, Steve, in the family micro-dairy. But then an outsider arrives, claiming to be kin, and HASHES & BASHES begin. Steve was already perturbed with the brother he has when Carl Edwards strides onto the farm. David Breeden, who lives nearby, is not a bastard but always acted like one. Carl, a charismatic Californian, may be a bastard, but doesn't act like one… Yet Carl rocks the entire small Midwestern farming community, including a lively cast of characters who assault Steve's calm-against-chaos pattern in this humorous family saga: • his spunky farmwife, Jackie, and her meddlesome church lady friends • his immature son, Brandon, and his female pursuers • his pastor, who attempts to foist guilt while grubbing funds • the lure of edible and spreadable medical marijuana and easy money from natural gas fracking Only Sparty, Steve's dog, remains steadfast throughout the hijinks.