02170cam a2200349 4500 1147892432 TxAuBib ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 2017278399 9781504797719 hardcover 150479771X hardcover TxAuBib Hecht, Daniel, author. On Brassard's farm : a novel / Daniel Hecht. First edition. Ashland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2018. 375 pages ; 24 cm. In a radical departure from her urban life, Ann Turner buys a piece of remote Vermont land and sets up a tent home in deep forest. She's trying to escape an unending string of personal disasters in Boston; more, she desperately wants to leave behind a world she sees as increasingly defined by consumerism, hypocrisy, and division. As she writes in her journal, ""There's got to be a more honest, less divided way to live."" She soon learns she was mistaken in thinking a kindly Mother Earth would grant her wisdom and serenity in her new home. Trying to escape an unending string of personal disasters in Boston, Ann Turner buys a piece of remote Vermont land and sets up a tent home in deep forest. She desperately wants to leave behind a world she sees as increasingly defined by consumerism, hypocrisy, and division. She soon learns she was mistaken in thinking a kindly Mother Earth would grant her wisdom and serenity in her new home: the forest is full of dangers, loneliness, and wild animals. Working as a farmhand, she discovers what hard work really means, about dairy farming... and about herself. -- adapted from jacket. Dairy farmers Fiction. Dairy farmers. Farm life Vermont Fiction. Farm life. Rural women Fiction. Rural women. Self-actualization (Psychology) Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology.) FICTION / Literary. Rural-urban divide. Vermont Fiction. Vermont.