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This life is in your hands : one dream, sixty acres, and a family undone
Title:
This life is in your hands : one dream, sixty acres, and a family undone
ISBN:
9780061958328
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Harper, c2011.
Physical Description:
325 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Family -- Livelihood -- Sustenance -- Seclusion -- Companions -- Water -- Tribe -- Paradise -- Bicentennial -- Atonement -- Mercy.
Summary:
With urban farming and backyard chicken flocks becoming increasingly popular, Coleman has written this portrait of her own childhood experience in Maine with her two homesteading parents during the turbulent 1970s. A memoir that explores the hope and struggle behind one family's search for a self-sufficient life.
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