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With wistfulness and humor, the author recounts her efforts to carve out a life for herself in a one-room cabin in Vermont, where she tried her hand at rustic living and adopted a baby girl from China. Reprint.
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When author Eliza Thomas realizes suddenly, in her forties, that she has forgotten to make a life or a home, she thinks it's time to find an alternative to her leaky, drafty apartment in Boston. After a few trips to the country, she finds an old Boy Scout cabin in a small valley in Vermont. At first Thomas's one-room cabin doesn't seem like a place where she could live year-round - even with the cabinets and bunk beds that the previous owners added. It's just somewhere to go on the weekends for some peace and quiet. But with Yankee ingenuity and a good sense of humor, Thomas sets about turning this tiny, eccentric structure into something closer to home. She clears the land, builds two additions - the first to accommodate her grand piano and bed, the second to make room for her newly adopted Chinese daughter, Amelia - and she plants a garden. In the midst of all the construction, the mice, and the unexpected disasters, Thomas explores neighboring woods and farmland, rescues a puppy named Freddy, and with much imagination and a few stops at local yard sales, makes her quirky place livable.
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spent years telling herself that her odd jobs and makeshift living spaces were only temporary. One day she woke up to discover that they had become her life.
Single and childless in her forties, Thomas made an enormous leap: from a drafty apartment in Boston to a one-room Boy Scout cabin in rural Vermont. There, with hammer and nails, the companionship of her trusted dog, Lily, and the courage to reinvent herself, Eliza set about turning the unfinished cabin into a home--and soons finds--in the beautiful baby girl she adopts from China--that she has a family to go along with it.
A story of building up and letting go, of learning to appreciate both solitude and connection, The Road Home is one woman's chronicle of triumph--and of creating a place to grow up again.
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- PublisherDelta
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 038532393X
- ISBN 13 9780385323932
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages179
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