Title:
This life is in your hands : one dream, sixty acres, and a family undone
Author:
Coleman, Melissa, 1969-
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Harper, [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Summary:
With urban farming and backyard chicken flocks becoming increasingly popular, Coleman has written this timely and honest portrait of her own childhood experience in Maine with her two homesteading parents during the turbulent 1970s. A luminous, evocative memoir that explores the hope and struggle behind one family's search for a self-sufficient life.
Language:
English
Contents:
Family -- Livelihood -- Seclusion -- Companions -- Water -- Paradise -- Tribe -- Bicentennial -- Atonement -- Aftermath -- Departure.
ISBN:
9780061958328
Format :
Book
