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008			102302s20092008nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2008002220
020			_a9781602854000
050	0	0	_aPS3552.A6815 _bC68 2008
082	0	0	_aLARP FIC BAR
100	1		_aBarnes, Kim
245	1	2	_aA country called home _c/ Kim Barnes
260			_aThorndike, ME _b: Center Point Large Print _c, 2009, c2008.
300			_a383 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aWith her acclaimed memoirIn the WildernessKim Barnes brought us to the great forests of Idaho, where geography and isolation shape love and family. Now, in her luminous new novel, she returns to this territory, offering a powerful tale of hope and idealism, faith and madness. It is 1960 when Thomas Deracotte and his pregnant wife, Helen, abandon a guaranteed future in upper-crust Connecticut and take off for a utopian adventure in the Idaho wilderness. They buy a farm sight unseen and find the buildings collapsed, the fields in ruins. But they have a tent, a river full of fish, and acres overgrown with edible berries and dandelion greens. Helen learns to make coffee over a fire as they set about rebuilding the house. Though Thomas discovers he can't wield a hammer or an ax, there is a local boy, Manny a sweet soul of eighteen without a family of his own who agrees to manage the fields in exchange for room and board. Their optimism and desire carry them through the early days. But the sudden, frightening birth of Thomas and Helen's daughter, Elise, changes something deep inside their marriage. And then, in the aftermath of a tragic accident to which only Manny bears witness, suspicion, anger, and regret come to haunt this shattered family. It is a legacy Elise will inherit and struggle with, until she ultimately finds a hope of her own. In this extraordinary novel, Kim Barnes reminds us of what it means to be young and in love, to what lengths people will go to escape loneliness, and the redemption found in family.
650		0	_aMarried people _x--Fiction
650			_aCountry life _v--Fiction
651			_aIdaho _v--Fiction
830			_aLarge print books
942			_cMO
999			_c231981 _d231981