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

Coleman, Melissa. (Author).

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.

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  • ISBN: 9780061958328
  • ISBN: 0061958328
  • Physical Description: 325 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Harper, [2011]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Family -- Livelihood -- Sustenance -- Seclusion -- Companions -- Water -- Tribe -- Paradise -- Bicentennial -- Loss -- Atonement -- Mercy.

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

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