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New York Times Bestseller
May 1, 2011
E-Book Nonfiction List
New York Times Review
April 7, 2011
Review by Janet Maslin:
Back-to-the-Land Life Recalled in Dark and Light.
Oprah Magazine Excerpt
April 2011
Excerpt from the book:
Into the Woods: An Idyllic Life in Rural Maine Undone by Tragic Loss.
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This Life Is in Your Hands
"Set on a rugged coastal homestead during the 1970s, This Life Is in Your Hands introduces a superb young writer driven by the need to uncover the truth of a childhood tragedy and connect anew with the beauty and vitality of the back-to-the land ideal that shaped her early years."
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Praise from Wally Lamb:
"Combine the sincerity of Thoreau's Walden with the poignancy of Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle, add dashes of the lush prose found in Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire, and you end up with Melissa Coleman's This Life Is in Your Hands..."
—Wally Lamb, author The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She's Come Undone
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Melissa Coleman
Melissa Coleman is the author of This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone. A New York Times bestseller and Indie Next Pick for May 2011, it was excerpted in O, The Oprah Magazine, and has been reviewed in the New York Times and New York Times Book Review, Marie Claire, NPR, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and was a People's Pick in People Magazine.
Melissa is a columnist for Maine and Maine Home and Design magazines and serves on the board of the Telling Room, a Portland writing center for kids. She lives in Freeport, Maine, with her husband and twin daughters.
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