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Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm

✍ Scribed by Menkedick, Sarah

Book ID
109720458
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2017
Tongue
en-US
Weight
322 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781101871416

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✦ Synopsis

Fresh, intimate, and radiantly meditative, Homing Instincts is the story of one woman's "coming of age" as a first-time parent on her family's rural Ohio farm

After teaching English to recalcitrant teenagers on Reunion Island, picking grapes in France, and witnessing a revolution in Mexico, Sarah Menkedick, at thirty-one, embarks on what might become her most challenging adventure yet: she moves into a tiny nineteenth-century cabin on her family's farm, and prepares to become a mother. She never expected to want this kind of settled life, and yet she finds a new peace and inspiration in the surrounding natural world as she and her husband, Jorge, prepare for the exciting unknown. Menkedick juxtaposes the progress of her pregnancy and the larger questions it inspires with recollections of her family history; being raised by a single and unapologetically hippie father; her paternal grandmother, Millie, whose Midwestern German fortitude informed the character...

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