Genre: Memoir
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012
Pages: 352
Rating: Highly Recommend
Synopsis: A true story, both tragic and redemptive, This Life Is in Your Hands tells of the quest to make a good life, the role of fate, and the power of forgiveness.
In the fall of 1968, Melissa Coleman's parents pack their VW truck and set out to forge a new existence on a rugged coastal homestead. Inspired by Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of the homesteading bible Living the Good Life, Eliot and Sue build their own home by hand, live off the crops they grow, and establish a happy family with Melissa and her two sisters. They also attract national media and become icons of the back-to-the-land farming movement, but the pursuit of a purer, simpler life comes at a price. In the wake of a tragic accident, idealism gives way to human frailty, and by the fall of 1978, Greenwood Farm is abandoned. The search to understand what happened is at the heart of this luminous, heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive memoir.
Review: Wonderfully written this memoir is fascinating and heartbreaking at the same time. Choosing to live in such a primitive manner does not sound like fun to me, but I'm a moth to flame to read about it.
The author is able to make farming actually sound rewarding. I'm not exactly nature-girl, but this memoir has me thinking that maybe I'd like to plant a little garden next summer.
This is a memoir that will stay with me for a long, long time.
The author is able to make farming actually sound rewarding. I'm not exactly nature-girl, but this memoir has me thinking that maybe I'd like to plant a little garden next summer.
This is a memoir that will stay with me for a long, long time.
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