What are specific connections between Seedfolks and Transcendentalism?

I think that one specific connection between Fleischman's
work and the theory of Transcendentalism is the location of the subjective.  Both in
form and message, Fleischman's work places a great deal of emphasis on the subjective
experience.  The reader understands the novel's development through the individual
voices of different characters.  Each character appropriates the world in accordance to
their own subjectivity.  This process happens through emotional understanding and
connection.  It is in these two realms- subjectivity and emotion- where
Transcendentalism could connect to the novel.  At the same time, the fact that the
natural process of growth and nature, itself, becomes an important backdrop to the novel
is vitally important.  The idea of the gardens represent different realities to
different characters.  Transcendentalists would love the idea that nature, itself, is a
part of human emotional growth and development, similar to plants,
themselves.