This Life Is In Your Hands

by Coleman, Melissa

• ISBN13: 9780061958328
• ISBN10: 0061958328
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-12
• Publisher: Harpercollins

Summary

Set on the rugged coast of Maine during the 1970s, This Life Is in Your Hands introduces a superb young writer haunted by the need to uncover the truth of a childhood tragedy and capture the beauty of a unique way of life.Melissa Coleman tells of her parents, Eliot and Sue-a handsome, idealistic young couple from well-to-do families who forgo the trappings of society to carve a homestead from the woods. While they achieve success and recognition, The pursuit of purity and simplicity comes at a price. Winters are long, summers frenetic, And The young farm apprentices threaten the Coleman's marriage. Then, one summer day when Melissa is seven, her three-year-old sister drowns in a pond where they often played. What really happened, and who, if anyone, Is to blame?In the wake of the accident, ideals give way to human frailty, divorce, and a mother's breakdown-and ultimately young Melissa is abandoned To The care of apprentices. This Life Is in Your Hands is her vivid telling of what happened; a true story, both tragic and redemptive, of the quest to make a good life, The role of fate, And The power of belief.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
Family	p. 7
Livelihood	p. 45
Sustenance	p. 69
Seclusion	p. 85
Companions	p. 101
Water	p. 125
Tribe	p. 149
Paradise	p. 187
Bicentennial	p. 221
Loss	p. 247
Atonement	p. 261
Mercy	p. 287
Epilogue	p. 317
Acknowledgments	p. 322
List of Illustrations	p. 324
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