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Description edit
In his moving debut book, America columnist Kyle Kramer recounts the sometimes-gritty story of how he came to experience the joys of real community through a journey of honest reckoning with his own ambitions. For Kramer, this story involves lots of dirt. In the summer of 1999, Kramer, an... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Kyle Kramer: farmer, husband, father,
First Sentence edit
In the oppressive, muggy air of late July, in the middle of a drought, I stumbled over the parched and cracked ground of an overgrown, weedy, field in southwestern Indiana.
Table of Contents edit
Part One
Chapter 1 Coming Home
Chapter 2 Settling In
Chapter 3 Lonliness and Love
Chapter 4 Building Home
Part Two
Chapter 5 Farming and Food
Chapter 6 Children at Play
Chapter 7 Open Home, Open Heart: Hospitality and Belonging
Chapter 8 Simplicity, Sacrifice, and the Struggle to Stay Put
Conclusion: Home-Grown Hope
Authors & Contributors edit
- Kyle T. Kramer (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Wendell Berry (Contributor)
- Michael Pollan (Contributor)
- Daniel Ladinsky (Contributor)
- Timothy Fry, O.S.B. (Contributor)
- Bill McKibben (Foreword)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Ave Maria Press, Sorin Books, Notre Dame, IN 46556
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 1-933495-26-X
Page Count: 173
Publisher: Ave Maria Press, Sorin Books, Notre Dame, IN 46556
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 1-933495-26-X
Page Count: 173
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 248.482
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