{"product_id":"9781682262276","title":"Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A memoir infused with both empathy and inquiry.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Wendy J. Fox, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eTwenty Acres\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging, thoughtful memoir of growing up in an off-the-grid cabin as part of the 1970s back-to-the-land movement. Sarah Neidhardt captures her subject beautifully and offers a compelling portrait of a highly specific, historically significant time and place.”\u003cbr\u003e —Kate Daloz, author of\u003ci\u003e We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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\u003eis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46408028717297,"sku":"9781682262276","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781682262276_p0.jpg?v=1765097832","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781682262276","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}