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Megan Baxter
Author
Farm Girl, a Memoir
Megan Baxter, author
Farm Girl is a memoir of urgent grace that crosses boundaries of genre and time. In her second year of college, Megan finds herself bonded to a lover spiraling into addiction and two thousand miles away from her heart’s home—a stretch of forty certified-organic acres along the banks of the Connecticut River separating Vermont and New Hampshire. In the crucible of a rainy Portland winter, Megan is forced to decide whether to embrace her future as a farm girl or to continue growing into the woman everyone hopes she’ll become. Farm Girl is about two love affairs that force a decision: the love between two people and the love between Megan and the landscape. With innovative prose and lush description, Farm Girl raises the earth up as a character and asks questions about the work we choose to sustain us—how careful attention and devotion to the earth transcends human tragedy.
Reviews
Bill McKibben

"This is a book about groundedness, I think -- about the soil into which one can sink one's feet when the going is impossible. It's a remarkable account." - Bill McKibben, author of RADIO FREE VERMONT

 

Jodi Picoult

A startlingly lovely memoir about how things die, how things grow, and how we reap what we sow...even when we might wish differently. Baxter's language is as rich as the soil she tends; it will be a joy to see how she blossoms in her career. - Jodi Picoult, #1 NYT bestselling author of THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS
 

Stephanie Anderson

An expertly rendered memoir of land, loss, and love. Farm Girl confronts and ultimately celebrates the beautiful, painful complexity of both the earth and the human heart. - Stephanie Anderson, author of ONE SIZE FITS NONE: A FARM GIRL'S SEARCH FOR THE PROMISE OF REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

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