Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This life is in your hands

Oclc number

641532223

Responsibility statement

Melissa Coleman

Review

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

Sub title

one dream, sixty acres, and a family undone

Table Of Contents

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

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