This life is in your hands : one dream, sixty acres, and a family undone / Melissa Coleman.

Título:

ISBN:

9780061958328

Autor personal:

Coleman, Melissa, 1969-

Edición:

First edition.

Información de publicación:

New York : Harper, [2011]

Descripción física:

325 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Contenido:

Family -- Livelihood -- Seclusion -- Companions -- Water -- Paradise -- Tribe -- Bicentennial -- Atonement -- Aftermath -- Departure.

Síntesis:

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.

Materia personal:

Coleman, Melissa-Childhood and youth

Coleman, Melissa-Family

Coleman, Eliot, 1938-

Coleman, Sue, 1945-

Término geográfico:

Penobscot Bay Region (Me.) -- Biography

Penobscot Bay Region (Me.) -- Social life and customs

DAK_SUBJECT_TERM_DISPLAY:

Loss (Psychology)

Children--Maine--Penobscot Bay Region -- Death

Drowning--Maine--Penobscot Bay Region