Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm - Hardcover

Link, Mardi Jo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307596915 ISBN 13: 9780307596918

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2013

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Book by Link Mardi Jo

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Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most.

It’s the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link’s dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband of nineteen years have just called it quits, leaving her with serious cash-flow problems and a looming divorce. More broke than ever, Link makes a seemingly impossible resolution: to hang on to her century-old farmhouse in northern Michigan and continue to raise her three boys on well water and wood chopping and dirt. Armed with an unfailing sense of humor and three resolute accomplices, Link confronts blizzards and foxes, learns about Zen divorce and the best way to butcher a hog, dominates a zucchini-growing contest and wins a year’s supply of local bread, masters the art of bargain cooking, wrangles rampaging poultry, and withstands any blow to her pride in order to preserve the life she wants.

With an infectious optimism that would put Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm to shame and a deep appreciation of the natural world, Link tells the story of how, over the course of one long year, she holds on to her sons, saves the farm from foreclosure, and finds her way back to a life of richness and meaning on the land she loves.

Biografía del autor:

Mardi Jo Link is the author of When Evil Came to Good Hart (2008) andIsadore’s Secret (2009), winner of the Michigan Notable Book Award. She lives with her family on a small farm in northern Michigan.

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0307596915
• ISBN 13: 9780307596918
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 257