{"product_id":"twenty-acres-a-seventies-childhood-in-the-woods-9781682262276","title":"Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A memoir infused with both empathy and inquiry.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Wendy J. Fox, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e Sarah Neidhardt grew up in the woods. When she was an infant, her parents left behind comfortable, urbane lives to take part in the back-to-the-land movement. They moved their young family to an isolated piece of land deep in the Arkansas Ozarks where they built a cabin, grew crops, and strove for eight years to live self-sufficiently. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this vivid memoir Neidhardt explores her childhood in wider familial and social contexts. Drawing upon a trove of family letters and other archival material, she follows her parents' journey from privilege to food stamps-from their formative youths, to their embrace of pioneer homemaking and rural poverty, to their sudden and wrenching return to conventional society-and explores the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s as it was, and as she lived it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A story of strangers in a strange land, of class, marriage, and family in a changing world, \u003ci\u003eTwenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e is part childhood idyll, part cautionary tale. Sarah Neidhardt reveals the treasures and tolls of unconventional, pastoral lives, and her insightful reflections offer a fresh perspective on what it means to aspire to pre-industrial lifestyles in a modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Neidhardt\u003c\/b\u003e has worked as a bookseller, secretary, paralegal, copyeditor, and stay-at-home mother. She grew up in Arkansas and Northern California and now lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and teenage son. She is a graduate of Oberlin College. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50534711525650,"sku":"9781682262276","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_20ef4164-1f7d-4af7-a5e9-b3319eac508a.jpg?v=1731428889","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/twenty-acres-a-seventies-childhood-in-the-woods-9781682262276","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}