Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea
 

Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea

by Catherine Goldhammer

For the millions who loved A Year by the Sea comes a memoir of a woman who awakens at midlife to find wisdom in a most unlikely place

In this lovely, unconventional, often funny memoir, we meet Catherine Goldhammer, newly separated and several tax brackets poorer, forced by circumstance to move from the affluent New England suburb of her daughter's childhood into a new, more rustic... (read more)

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This is a sweet memoir about a woman who goes through a divorce and has to move to a smaller house. With all the upheaval and confusion of her relocation and assorted adjustments, the one thing she has to concentrate on is the chickens her daughter insisted the get. It is a lovely story and since I have always wanted chickens someday, I enjoyed it a lot.

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