Beaten down by his affluent and perpetually disappointed deacons, six-foot-eleven Reverend John Crackstone finally cracks. What begins as backyard diversion swells into an absurd obsession: to grow the world's largest pumpkin and, with the help of an entrepreneur friend, build a pumpkin empire to make everything from snacks to toilet paper--and win him fame and fortune. Crackstone sees his pumpkins, especially the giant named Schwartz, as his shot at greatness.

While often comic, Getting Huge is also a cautionary tale for our times. The pursuit of ill-defined success overrides judgment--until we, like John Crackstone, are jolted into clarity and head for the hills.

This romp of a novel is for all who have worked with the wrong people in the wrong place. And ached to escape--to start something new--to find a sense of belonging.