Lemon Grove

When John's body was finally discovered by police in a lemon grove in Rojales, near Alicante, it was clear there had been foul play.

They stood on a gravel road next to a lemon grove, checking on what remained of the forest.

In June, Lemons, 43, opened The Lemon Grove, a vintage clothing and household accessories store in Pioneer Square.

Given her small-business success — she’s doubled the farm’s annual revenue every year since its inception in 2019 — Nafis notes that she and her husband, Chris, a pastor, failed miserably in their previous attempts at farming a small community-supported agriculture farm on a vacant lot in Lemon Grove in 2012 and a 45-acre ranch in Jamul in 2013.

Mingling comedy and horror while leaning into the seedy sublime of Florida, this scenario sounds like a story by Karen Russell, the author of “Swamplandia!” and “Vampires in the Lemon Grove.”