This life is in your hands : one dream, sixty acres, and a family undone / Melissa Coleman.
This life is in your hands : one dream, sixty acres, and a family undone / Melissa Coleman.
By
:
Coleman, Melissa.
Publication Date
:
2011
Publication Information
:
New York : Harper,
Edition
:
1st ed.
Physical Description
:
325 p. : ill., map.
Subject Term
:
Loss (Psychology)
Children -- Maine -- Penobscot Bay Region -- Death.
Drowning -- Maine -- Penobscot Bay Region.
Families -- Maine -- Penobscot Bay Region.
Farm life -- Maine -- Penobscot Bay Region.
Geographic Term
:
Penobscot Bay Region (Me.) -- Biography.
Penobscot Bay Region (Me.) -- Social life and customs.
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
ISBN
:
9780061958328
| Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
|---|
| Cape St. George (WCS) | Adult Bio | Adult Biography | 974.1 C67 | Checked In |
| Happy Valley - Goose Bay (LHV) Melville | Adult Bio | Adult Biography | 974.1 C67 | Checked In |
| Labrador City (LLC) M. Butt | Adult Bio | Adult Biography | 974.1 C67 | Checked In |