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In this particular witty, smart, heartwarming memoir, Blant Damage, a 50-something flatlander with metropolitan sensibilities, buys a ratty weekend cabin up in the dark center of the Ozark Mountains. His new wife has a moving familiarity with this robust area, but nonetheless. What are they doing? Their cabin is crudely built and does not have running drinking water and electricity. Then there's the local land baron who aspires to create a giant fine sand mine on their doorstep. Aided by their deep-souled "true Ozarker" neighbor, they slowly peel back the tiers of what's basically a sealed contemporary society up in the wilds of Izard County, Arkansas. They enroll in a one-room chapel using its oddball Yankee preacher, undertake a enchanting stray dog that serves as an ever-eager walking companion, brush against the local arts and crafts gentry (alas, neither has any craft-worthy skills, save her fondness for spray-painting), and even sign up for several doomsday preppers. Through everything, they come to relish their new lives in this little lost part of the world. Eventually, due to the damage of the local land baron, they scheme to amass more property to pass on to their heirs as a so-called 100 season legacy, if only they, like so many other dreamers up in the Ozarks, can move it off.
