{"product_id":"out-of-this-world-mary-swander-9781587296376","title":"Out of This World: A Journey of Healing","description":"When a life-threatening allergic illness demanded that she eat only organically grown food, writer and professor Mary Swander built a new life in a former one-room Iowa schoolhouse in the middle of the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi. In this rich and engaging memoir, which follows the course of a farmer's year, she writes from the well-named Fairview School to share the radical transformation of her life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom her perch in rural Kalona, Iowa, Swander discovers new strength and self-reliance along with a community of hardworking and hospitable neighbors. Raising goats and poultry, participating in barn raisings and auctions, protecting her garden from a plague of grasshoppers, creating a living cr che at Christmastime, all the while laughing at her attempts to wrestle with the pioneer challenges of midwestern winters and summers, she explores what it means to be a lone physical and spiritual homesteader at the end of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Swander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1587296373\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781587296376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.78h x 5.04w x 0.71d","brand":"Mary Swander","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44652387303679,"sku":"9781587296376","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_14889c06-c1f9-409b-89a6-769095482a98.jpg?v=1704215858","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/out-of-this-world-mary-swander-9781587296376","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}