{"product_id":"twenty-acres-sarah-neidhardt-9781682262276","title":"Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A memoir infused with both empathy and inquiry.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Wendy J. Fox, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e Sarah Neidhardt grew up in the woods. When she was an infant, her parents left behind comfortable, urbane lives to take part in the back-to-the-land movement. They moved their young family to an isolated piece of land deep in the Arkansas Ozarks where they built a cabin, grew crops, and strove for eight years to live self-sufficiently. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this vivid memoir Neidhardt explores her childhood in wider familial and social contexts. Drawing upon a trove of family letters and other archival material, she follows her parents' journey from privilege to food stamps-from their formative youths, to their embrace of pioneer homemaking and rural poverty, to their sudden and wrenching return to conventional society-and explores the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s as it was, and as she lived it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A story of strangers in a strange land, of class, marriage, and family in a changing world, \u003ci\u003eTwenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e is part childhood idyll, part cautionary tale. Sarah Neidhardt reveals the treasures and tolls of unconventional, pastoral lives, and her insightful reflections offer a fresh perspective on what it means to aspire to pre-industrial lifestyles in a modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Neidhardt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1682262278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682262276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d","brand":"Sarah Neidhardt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075878678783,"sku":"9781682262276","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6e402a48-eec8-4a37-a2d8-1a85cc89ab92.jpg?v=1685461969","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/twenty-acres-sarah-neidhardt-9781682262276","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}