Phil in SF quoted Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependent on one …
Lee Chong did not give it these things, with the result that the truck stood in the tall grass back of the grocery most of the time with the mallows growing between its spokes.
— Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (32%)
new vocabulary: mallow
A herbaceous plant with hairy stems, pink or purple flowers, and disc-shaped fruit.