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Place on a solid coastal homestead during the 1970s, This Life Is in Your Hands introduces an excellent young writer powered by the necessity to uncover the truth of a youth tragedy and hook up anew with the wonder and vitality of the back-to-the-land ideal that shaped her early years. In the fall of 1968, Melissa Coleman's parents, Eliot and Sue - a good looking, idealistic young few from well-to-do households - load up a few basics into their VW truck and give up the complications of modern actuality to carve a farm from the woods. They proceed to a remote peninsula on the shoreline of Maine and become disciples of Helen and Scott Nearing, creators of the homesteading bible Living the Good Life. On 60 acres of sandy, intractable land, Eliot and Sue get started to forge a new lifestyle, subsisting on the crops they develop and building a house with their own hands. While they establish a happy family and achieve their visionary goals, the quest for a purer, simpler life comes at a price. Winters are long and slim, summers frenetic with the work of the harvest, and the distraction of the numerous young farm apprentices threatens the Colemans' matrimony. Then, one summer months day when Melissa is seven, her three-year-old sister, Heidi, wanders off and drowns in the fish-pond where she liked to experience. Inside the wake of the automobile accident, ideals give way to real human frailty, divorce, and a mother's break down - and finally young Melissa is left behind to the treatment of neighbors. What really happened, and who, if anyone, is to blame? This Life Is in Your Hands is the search to comprehend a complicated former; a true account, both tragic and redemptive, it explains to of the pursuit to make a good life, the role of destiny, and the energy of forgiveness.
