After his brother's brush with death, Luke Hanlor is pulled back to the Minnesota farm he fled thirty years ago. Every acre reopens old wounds: a neighbor's mysterious death, estrangement from his daughter, and the disappearance of his youngest brother-a wound that has shaped every choice Luke has made, and a guilt he has never found a way to outrun. As a predatory megafarm closes in, Luke allies with a grassroots movement fighting to save family farms, only to discover its local leader is a trusted family friend who may know more about Luke's past than she's ever let on, and whose knowledge threatens to unravel everything Luke believes he's escaped. Lodi is a novel about returning home-to land, to family, and to the truths we spend our lives avoiding. With quiet humor and emotional precision, Jeff Wiemiller captures the beauty, burden, and stubborn grace of small-town America.