When Eleanor Agnew, her husband, and two young children moved to the Maine woods in 1975, the back-to-the-land movement had already attracted untold numbers of converts who had grown increasingly estranged from mainstream American society. Visionaries by the millions were moving into woods, mountains, orchards, and farmlands in order to disconnect from the supposedly deleterious influences of modern life. Fed up with capitalism, TV, Washington politics, and 9-to-5 jobs, they took up residence in log cabins, A-frames, tents, old schoolhouses, and run-down farmhouses; grew their own crops; hauled water from wells; avoided doctors in favor of natural cures; and renounced energy-guzzling appliances. This is their story, in all its glories and agonies, its triumphs and disasters (many of them richly amusing), told by a woman who experienced the simple life firsthand but has also read widely and interviewed scores of people who went back to the land. Ms. Agnew tells how they found joy and camaraderie, studied their issues of Mother Earth News, coped with frozen laundry and grinding poverty, and persevered or gave up. Most of them, it turns out, came back from freedom and self-sufficiency, either by returning to urban life or by dressing up their primitive rural existence—but they held onto the values they gained during their back-to-the-land experience. Back from the Land is filled with juicy details and inspired with a naïve idealism, but the attraction of the life it describes is undeniable. Here is a book to delight those who remember how it was, those who still kick themselves for not taking the chance, and those of a new generation who are just now thinking about it.

Set in the 1970s, in the era of the Vietnam War and its volatile aftermath, Land of Smiles tells the story of a young Southeast Asian man's journey from a refugee camp in Thailand to a housing project in Oakland, California. The novel opens with a Laotian boy, Boontakone, who swims across the Mekong River, leaving his old life behind, and losing his mother and sister in the process. In a refugee camp in Thailand, Boontakone struggles to decipher the secret codes of his new life. In this passage, T. C. Huo offers a glimpse into a world as highly ordered and dependent on proper observance of social customs and manners as any created by Jane Austen. Eventually Boontakone and his father make their way to America, where the young man will have to sort out impressions as dazzling and puzzling as the American high school, "Superman," and Saturday Night Fever. Balancing a moving account of dislocation and loss with gentle comedy, Land of Smiles is a new classic in the literature of the immigrant experience.

Set in the 1970s, in the era of the Vietnam War and its volatile aftermath, Land of Smiles tells the story of a young Southeast Asian man's journey from a refugee camp in Thailand to a housing project in Oakland, California. The novel opens with a Laotian boy, Boontakone, who swims across the Mekong River, leaving his old life behind, and losing his mother and sister in the process. In a refugee camp in Thailand, Boontakone struggles to decipher the secret codes of his new life. In this passage, T. C. Huo offers a glimpse into a world as highly ordered and dependent on proper observance of social customs and manners as any created by Jane Austen. Eventually Boontakone and his father make their way to America, where the young man will have to sort out impressions as dazzling and puzzling as the American high school, "Superman," and Saturday Night Fever. Balancing a moving account of dislocation and loss with gentle comedy, Land of Smiles is a new classic in the literature of the immigrant experience.

In Working the Land: Building a Life, Fran Cirbo writes about a remote part of everyday life in America, farming. In the book, Fran recalls life on her family's farm in Eastern Colorado. It s a book filled with history lessons and poignant stories told in a vivid narrative, giving a snapshot of life on the plains in 1920s and 30s Colorado. The book begins in turn-of-the-century Czechoslovakia, better known then as Austria-Hungary, where her parents Andrew and Lucy Kochis farmed with their families and the rest of their community in a small village called Rudnik. Andrew, Lucy and their first-born son John came to America in the early 1900s eventually settling in Matheson, Colorado where they had received land through the Homestead Act of 1862. Many farmers gave up working the land, but not Andrew and Lucy; they stayed and persevered amidst the winter blizzards, summer droughts and dust bowls. Lucy gave birth to Fran in 1927. As the youngest of 14 children, Fran had the benefit of learning about her family's struggles and triumphs through the stories her parents, aunts and uncles, and older brothers and sisters told to her. Her book captures it all--the lessons learned and the lessons taught. In Working the Land: Building a Life, Fran describes her life on the farm in a way that brings every word to life. Her storytelling is interactive and puts the reader right alongside her, center stage on the farm, watching the seasons and technology change, riding the tractor, working the cream separator, canning the vegetables and harvesting the grain. Anyone raised on a farm can relive those times through the pictures Fran Cirbo paints her book. Working the Land: Building a Life is a tribute to homesteaders and pioneers, not just those from the Eastern plains of Colorado but everyone who grew up under blue skies and knee deep in Mother Earth. It reveals a culture of values, tradition, family, hope and prayer, a culture that epitomizes the old saying, "an honest day's work for an honest day's pay." Fran closes her book with a chapter titled Bits and Pieces, where she continues her story in vignettes that offer flashes of her last years on the farm. Working the Land: Building a Life is truly authentic in both its writing and structure, written with all the rawness and freeform of a personal journal--all of which makes Fran's book even more endearing. This book captures and draws its reader into its pages.

In Working the Land: Building a Life, Fran Cirbo writes about a remote part of everyday life in America, farming. In the book, Fran recalls life on her family's farm in Eastern Colorado. It s a book filled with history lessons and poignant stories told in a vivid narrative, giving a snapshot of life on the plains in 1920s and 30s Colorado. The book begins in turn-of-the-century Czechoslovakia, better known then as Austria-Hungary, where her parents Andrew and Lucy Kochis farmed with their families and the rest of their community in a small village called Rudnik. Andrew, Lucy and their first-born son John came to America in the early 1900s eventually settling in Matheson, Colorado where they had received land through the Homestead Act of 1862. Many farmers gave up working the land, but not Andrew and Lucy; they stayed and persevered amidst the winter blizzards, summer droughts and dust bowls. Lucy gave birth to Fran in 1927. As the youngest of 14 children, Fran had the benefit of learning about her family's struggles and triumphs through the stories her parents, aunts and uncles, and older brothers and sisters told to her. Her book captures it all--the lessons learned and the lessons taught. In Working the Land: Building a Life, Fran describes her life on the farm in a way that brings every word to life. Her storytelling is interactive and puts the reader right alongside her, center stage on the farm, watching the seasons and technology change, riding the tractor, working the cream separator, canning the vegetables and harvesting the grain. Anyone raised on a farm can relive those times through the pictures Fran Cirbo paints her book. Working the Land: Building a Life is a tribute to homesteaders and pioneers, not just those from the Eastern plains of Colorado but everyone who grew up under blue skies and knee deep in Mother Earth. It reveals a culture of values, tradition, family, hope and prayer, a culture that epitomizes the old saying, "an honest day's work for an honest day's pay." Fran closes her book with a chapter titled Bits and Pieces, where she continues her story in vignettes that offer flashes of her last years on the farm. Working the Land: Building a Life is truly authentic in both its writing and structure, written with all the rawness and freeform of a personal journal--all of which makes Fran's book even more endearing. This book captures and draws its reader into its pages.

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