Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea

Authors: Goldhammer, Catherine
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: BIO026000, BIO022000, BIO007000
ISBN: 9781440628955, Related ISBNs: 0452288487, 1440628955, 1594630259, 9780452288485, 9781440628955
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 192,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: "Frank, funny and helpful."—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

For the millions who loved A Year by the Sea comes a memoir of a woman who awakens at midlife to find wisdom in a most unlikely place
 

In this beautifully written and frequently funny memoir, Catherine Goldhammer, newly separated, along with her twelve-year-old daughter, starts life anew in a cottage by the sea, in a rustic town where live bait is sold from vending machines. Partly to please her daughter and partly for reasons not clear to her at the time, she begins this year of transition by purchasing six baby chickens—whose job, she comes to suspect, is to pull her and her daughter forward out of one life and into another.

An unforgettable story filled with hope and grace, Still Life with Chickens shows how transcendent wisdom can be found in the most unlikely of places.
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