Ours by Phillip B Williams

The use of metaphor in literature goes as far back as Homer. G.S Kirk noted:

The expanded simile, in which the details of the image are developed far beyond the point of comparison, and for their own sake, is one of the chief glories of the Iliad. The simile is a deliberate and highly wrought stylistic device, as careful in its language -- which is often untraditional in its appearance, because the subject matter is often untraditional too -- as in its variety and its placing in the narrative.

Here I copied a single metaphor highlighting grass in Williams' novel Ours. The lines say the grass is sharp, has a buttery light, cries out, and is yellow. Note that Williams avoids the obvious -- grass is green.

If the quality of sentences and well-constructed metaphors are important to you, then I recommend Ours.