This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone

by Melissa Coleman

Book Overview

"Lyrical and down-to-earth, wry and heartbreaking, This Life Is in Your Hands is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesn't just tell the story of her family's brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and underappreciated chapter of our recent history." --Tom Perrotta 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061958328
• ISBN13: 9780061958328
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"