Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea (Paperback)
Description
In this beautifully written and frequently funny memoir, Catherine Goldhammer, newly separated, along with her twelve-year-old daughter, starts life anew in a cottage by the sea, in a rustic town where live bait is sold from vending machines. Partly to please her daughter and partly for reasons not clear to her at the time, she begins this year of transition by purchasing six baby chickens--whose job, she comes to suspect, is to pull her and her daughter forward out of one life and into another. An unforgettable story filled with hope and grace, Still Life with Chickens shows how transcendent wisdom can be found in the most unlikely of places.
About the Author
CATHERINE GOLDHAMMER is a graduate of Goddard College and was a Poetry Fellow in the fine arts program of the University of Massachusetts. She has been published in the Georgia Review and the Ohio Review.
Praise for Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea…
In wry and poignant prose, Still Life with Chickens offers a testament to new beginnings. (Joan Anderson, author of the national bestseller A Year by the Sea)
When divorce takes [Goldhammer] . . . to a honky-tonk town with a preteen daughter and six chickens in tow, there is no still life! Only deeply felt, humorous, and, at last, happy life. (More magazine)
Still Life with Chickens teaches the art of moving on . . . and reminds the reader that--through friends, family, inspiration, humor, and a little chutzpah--anything is possible. (Ann Hood, author of Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine)
