This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family's Heartbreak Paperback - 2012
by Melissa Coleman
In a work of power and beauty reminiscent of Tobias Wolff, Jeannette Walls, and Dave Eggers, Coleman delivers a luminous, evocative childhood memoir exploring the hope and struggle behind her family's search for a sustainable lifestyle.
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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.
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- Title This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family's Heartbreak
- Author Melissa Coleman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2012-04-10
- Features Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780061958335 / 0061958336
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.79 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- New York Times Book Review, 06/24/2012, Page 28
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