The Birdhouse Chronicles : Surviving the Joys of Country Life

Cathleen Miller

ISBN 10: 1585744697 / ISBN 13: 9781585744695

Published by The Lyons Press, Guilford, CT, 2002

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INSCRIBED by author on title page. Light edge wear, clean copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Birdhouse Chronicles : Surviving the Joys of Country Life
• Publisher: The Lyons Press, Guilford, CT
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585744697
• ISBN 13: 9781585744695
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Recounts the author's decision to abandon city life to move to a Pennsylvania farm house in the middle of Amish country, describing such adventures as her attempts to refurbish her home, raise a first garden, faceoff with wild animals, and befriend the locals.

From the Back Cover

In THE BIRDHOUSE CHRONICLES, internationally bestselling author Cathleen Miller offers a funny and wise account of how she and her husband, Kerby, abandoned their San Francisco advertising careers to make a radical new life for themselves in a one-hundred-year-old Pennsylvania farmhouse located in the middle of an Amish cornpatch. Part memoir, part nature writing, and part old-house-restoration journal, this wonderfully intimate narrative brings home all the humor, exhilaration, and disappointment of pursuing a realer, "simpler" life in the country. Miller sprang from a rural background, and she's run from her roots during most of her adult life, but in Zion, Pa., she makes a gratifying, if not dubious, peace with her past. In her sassy, self-deprecating style, Cathleen Miller puts a fresh, authentic spin on the classic country memoir and surprises us with many unique twists, such as her close encounters with Amish neighbors. Sometimes wry and sometimes full of awe, her observations about these and other locals infuse this delightful true story with rich texture. Through it all we witness the blow-by-blow process of how she and her husband refurbished their woefully dilapidated country house, turning it into a home with a soul. A witty and entertaining narrative with a satisfying undercurrent of meaning and joy, THE BIRDHOUSE CHRONICLES is sure to become a classic of the back-to-the-country genre. (6 x 9, 288 pages)CATHLEEN MILLER's essays and articles have appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Times-Picayune, Denver Post, Cimarron Review, and Old House Journal, and in two anthologies, Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel and Travelers' Tales San Francisco. Her previous book, Desert Flower, written with coauthor Waris Dirie, has been published in sixteen countries.