Format:
Book
Title:
This life is in your hands : one dream, sixty acres, and a family undone / Melissa Coleman.
Author:
Coleman, Melissa. 1969-
Call Number:
974.13043 Coleman
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Harper, c2011.
Description:
325 p. : ill., 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.
Subjects:
Coleman, Melissa -- Childhood and youth.
Coleman, Melissa -- Family.
Coleman, Eliot, 1938-
Coleman, Sue, 1945-
Loss (Psychology) -- Case studies.
Children -- Maine -- Penobscot Bay Region -- Death.
Drowning -- Maine -- Penobscot Bay Region.
Farm life -- Maine -- Penobscot Bay Region.
Penobscot Bay Region (Me.) -- Biography.
Penobscot Bay Region (Me.) -- Social life and customs.
Contents:
Family -- Livelihood -- Seclusion -- Companions -- Water -- Paradise -- Tribe -- Bicentennial -- Atonement -- Aftermath -- Departure.
ISBN:
9780061958328
0061958328