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

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This life is in your hands

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Melissa Coleman

Sub title

one dream, sixty acres, and a family undone

Summary

In a work of power and beauty reminiscent of Tobias Wolff, Jeannette Walls, and Dave Eggers, Melissa Coleman delivers a luminous, evocative childhood memoir exploring the hope and struggle behind her family's search for a sustainable lifestyle. With echoes of The Liars' Club and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Coleman's searing chronicle tells the true story of her upbringing on communes and sustainable farms along the rugged Maine coastline in the 1970's, embedded within a moving, personal quest for truth that her experiences produced

Target audience

adult

Classification