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Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea (Paperback)
Catherine Goldhammer
#UB5162
Paperback, 192 pages; 2007 (2006)
$7.90
This is the story of my foray into the salvation of one sorry house and garden and one slightly tattered soul. It is the story of a small house on a big piece of land, by a salt pond, nine hundred feet from the great Atlantic Ocean. It is the story of a time that began as failure and turned into grace for a mother and a daughter and a small, determined dog. And, in what started as a bribe and then became a love story, it is the tale of my reluctant ownership of six two—day—old chickens who came to live with us here, on Dragonfly Farm.
After her marriage fell apart, Catherine Goldhammer realized very quickly that she could no longer afford her former standard of living. When she found a shabby but salvageable little cottage in an appealing setting near the ocean, she was delighted to be able to purchase it for half the sum brought in by the sale of the big, rambling house she and her husband had shared with their daughter. But when the twelve-year-old balked at moving, Goldhammer made a rash promise: they could keep chickens at the new place. Renovating a dilapidated cottage on a budget, raising a teenager, as well as learning to live the life of a single woman, all proved to be more complicated—and, surprisingly, considerably less painful—with the addition of a flock of chickens to the equation. Still Life with Chickens, a fresh and open memoir, offers the true story of the sometimes positive benefits of unwelcome change. Also available in hardcover.
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