內容簡介top The Birdhouse Chronicles: Making a New Life in the Country 簡介 In THE BIRDHOUSE CHRONICLES, internationally bestselling author Cathleen Miller offers a funny and wise account of how she and her husband, Kerby, abandoned their San Francisco advertising careers to make a radical new life for themselves in a one-hundred-year-old Pennsylvania farmhouse located in the middle of an Amish cornpatch. Part memoir, part nature writing, and part old-house-restoration journal, this wonderfully intimate narrative brings home all the humor, exhilaration, and disappointment of pursuing a realer, simpler life in the country. Miller sprang from a rural background, and shes run from her roots during most of her adult life, but in Zion, Pa., she makes a gratifying, if not dubious, peace with her past. In her sassy, self-deprecating style, Cathleen Miller puts a fresh, authentic spin on the classic country memoir and surprises us with many unique twists, such as her close encounters with Amish neighbors. Sometimes wry and sometimes full of awe, her observations about these and other locals infuse this delightful true story with rich texture. Through it all we witness the blow-by-blow process of how she and her husband refurbished their woefully dilapidated country house, turning it into a home with a soul. A witty and entertaining narrative with a satisfying undercurrent of meaning and joy, THE BIRDHOUSE CHRONICLES is sure to become a classic of the back-to-the-country genre. (6 x 9, 288 pages) CATHLEEN MILLERs essays and articles have appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Times-Picayune, Denver Post, Cimarron Review, and Old House Journal, and in two anthologies, Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel and Travelers Tales San Francisco. Her previous book, Desert Flower, written with coauthor Waris Dirie, has been published in sixteen countries.

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