{"product_id":"group-living-and-other-recipes-a-memoir-9781954118577","title":"Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An affirmation and celebration of our deep and radical connections with the world and each other . . . Reading this book is like finding a friend.\"--Ruth Ozeki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spirited and timely exploration of group living that encourages readers to reconsider the meaning of family and home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLola Milholland grew up in the nineties, the child of iconoclastic hippies. Both her parents threw open their rambling house in Portland, Oregon, to long-term visitors and unusual guests in need of a place to stay. Years later, after college and after her parents' separation, Milholland returned home. There, she joined her brother and his housemates--an eccentric group of stop-motion animators and accomplished cooks--in furthering the experiment of communal living into a new generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGroup Living and Other Recipes \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of the residents of the Holman House--of transcendent meals and ecstatic parties, of colorful characters coming together in moments of deep tenderness and inevitable irritation, of a shared life that is appealing, humorous, confounding, and, just maybe, utopian--with a wider exploration of group living as a way of life. From spending time at her aunt and uncle's intentional community in Washington State to finding her footing in the kitchen as a student in Japan to mushroom hunting in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, Milholland offers an expansive and vibrant reevaluation of the structures at the very center of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThoughtful, quirky, candid, and wise, \u003ci\u003eGroup Living and Other Recipes\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a gifted memoirist and thinker, making a convincing case that \"\u003ci\u003enow\u003c\/i\u003e is always the right time to reimagine home and family.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLola Milholland\u003c\/b\u003e is a food-business owner and writer whose work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. A former editor for \u003ci\u003eEdible Portland \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, she currently lives in Portland, Oregon, and runs Umi Organic, a noodle company with a commitment to providing nutritious public school lunch.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Spiegel \u0026 Grau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874656850194,"sku":"9781954118577","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3c63d290-927a-4323-86d5-29eb14e271d1.jpg?v=1738003218","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/group-living-and-other-recipes-a-memoir-9781954118577","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}