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Author:

Coleman, Melissa.

Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Harper,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

p. cm.

Subject:

Coleman, Melissa--Childhood and youth.
Coleman, Melissa--Family.
Coleman, Eliot,--1938-
Coleman, Sue,--1945-
Loss (Psychology)--Case studies.
Children--Penobscot Bay Region--Penobscot Bay Region--Death.
Drowning--Penobscot Bay Region.--Penobscot Bay Region.
Penobscot Bay Region (Me.)--Biography.
Farm life--Penobscot Bay Region.--Penobscot Bay Region.
Penobscot Bay Region (Me.)--Social life and customs.

Contents:

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

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.

ISBN:

0061958328
9780061958328

OCLC:

(OCoLC)641532223

LCCN:

2010024942

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